Most studies show that homeschooled children outperform their public school counterparts by 15 to 30 percent on standardized testing. This is true regardless of the educational levels of the parents or their income.
Yet teachers unions - and the politicians they own - loathe homeschoolers and sneer at parents who choose to educate their kids at home.
Virginia Senate Finance Chair Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, says Youngkin’s voucher idea is “not going to happen,”
Kaine first showed himself to be a blustering fool during his disastrous vice presidential debate with Mike Pence in 2016. At Tuesday’s hearing he came off as a sex-obsessed weirdo.
You know how this works, right? The cashier has been instructed to ask loudly for a donation, which has the effect of shaming the shopper into giving. I mean, who wants to look like a miser to the rest of the schlumps waiting in line? Especially if your basket is full of wine or steak. Once one person has been goaded into giving, everyone else is more likely to follow suit. There's some kind of mass psychology at work here.
Virginians can look at the California catastrophe to see what happens when state and local governments are run by Democrat climate crazies and DEI devotees.
Motherhood isn't easy, especially in households without extended family close by to provide support. It's exhausting both physically and emotionally—yet it's ultimately the most rewarding career on the planet.
Virginia already has higher income taxes than most of its neighbors, unlike a decade ago. Back in 2015, Virginia had lower income tax rates than West Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky.
I know that some Christian denominations have become little more than social clubs with pews, but it’s impossible to conceive of any church - no matter how diluted - that would long for a world without heaven or God.
My first reaction: Just what we need, people convicted of violent felonies working construction on our houses, driving for Uber, spraying our interior nooks and crannies for exterminating companies.
Virginia Democrats are wasting no time proposing a huge tax increase on Virginians by slapping a 5 percent tax on virtually every service in the commonwealth
I thought my son, who believes that one set of clothes can take a man through four seasons, was unique. Or part of a weird sect of Beach guys who think that living in a sandy environment requires summer duds all year.
Was Captain Kangaroo unavailable? The Menendez brothers? How about Larry Flynt? Jimmy Hoffa? John Hinckley? Why were the surviving members of the Manson family overlooked? Shoot, why was Hunter passed over?
The 2024 NAEP results will be as much of a report card on the educational policies and initiatives of Governor Glenn Youngkin as a measure of the reading and math skills of Virginia elementary and middle school students.
A couple of days ago I skewered New Jersey for enacting a law, effective Jan. 1, that removes a requirement for teachers to pass a reading, writing and mathematics test for licensure.
Memo to Tom Wilson: When a bloodthirsty jihadi waving an Isis flag goes on a murderous rampage, killing 15 innocent Americans, injuring others and terrorizing an entire city, the last thing we need is a lecture from a dweeby insurance exec on our “addiction to divisiveness and negativity”.
Pharrell Williams apparently has the city by the short hairs.
Someday, a real investigative journalist or a presidential historian will publish an unblinking account of what was going on behind closed doors at the White House to hide the leader of the Free World from the people.
According to hysterics in the media, the bird flu - detected in a single patient in Louisiana - shows signs of “concerning” mutations. An outbreak in chickens and cows has caused California (of course) to declare a state of emergency.
