So, what almost everyone suspected is now confirmed: Governor Youngkin fired his Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jillian Balow.
All in Bacon's Rebellion
Earlier this month, five Memphis police officers were charged with the murder of Tyre Nichols, a young Black man, after severely beating him during a traffic stop.
The Democratic majority in the General Assembly rejected the appointment of Suparna Dutta, a mother, engineer and an immigrant from India, to the Board of Education.
In preparing for the latest round of new additions to its solar generation assets, Dominion Energy Virginia rejected eight privately- developed projects which were substantially cheaper than the projects it wanted to build on its own with ratepayer money.
UVa, like other higher-ed institutions, is a strange beast. Its rules of governance are unlike those of government, or corporations, or charitable organizations. UVa is more like a feudal institution.
Black Students Disappearing from Classrooms Disproportionately in Ten of our Largest School Divisions
Without even bringing up school quality, this is unacceptable if we care about the futures of Black kids.
We have to get them in school. I say “we” because it will be a long-term disaster for both these children and Virginia if we don’t.
You might recall a story from last summer in Style Weekly entitled The Incredibly Shrinking Times-Dispatch about the decline of our local newspaper and the print news business in general. It has been a precipitous and rapid descent.
Here we go again. The Richmond Times-Dispatch is using “statistical disparities” as evidence of racial bias in Henrico County schools.
Old global warmist spin: as temperatures rise, millions will die.
Looks like Washington Post reporter Ian Shapira is loading up the big guns to fire another salvo in his unrelenting war on Virginia Military Institute alumni who are critical of the new leadership’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion policies.
‘Without sufficient discipline and access to clinical mental health services, behavioral intervention does not work to make schools safer and healthier.”
We have arrived today at a situation in which huge percentages of Virginia children and adolescents exhibit mental health problems.
Norfolk’s planning director, George Homewood, has left his post, and city officials aren’t saying whether he resigned or was fired.
Various advocacy groups have criticized the standards for “whitewashing” American history, downplaying the evils of slavery, segregation and racism.
Do all inmates deserve a chance for release? Even a serial killer, or a serial rapist who has been locked up and released before?
Virginia’s Senate Democrats are proudly advancing legislation to demand state government develop a comprehensive statewide heat emergency response plan.
Virginia Tech prof accuses student of spreading misinformation, threatens to delete discussion board posts
A group of James Madison University alumni has organized a new group, the Madison Cabinet for Free Speech and Accountability, to promote “freedom of expression, intellectual diversity, and academic freedom on campus.”
The Daily Press reported today that the Newport News school board has secured funding for state-of-the-art metal detectors.