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Black History, Our History
Black history is American history. Our schools should integrate Black, Asian, Hispanic, and queer history throughout our history books...
Vanessa Hall
Feb 15, 20243 min read
Virginia Colleges: Don't Close the Door on Dyslexics
A Call to Advocacy for SB21 and HB509 I am a parent of a dyslexic student. When it became clear in first grade that our daughter could...
Vanessa Hall
Feb 1, 20243 min read
Fairfax's School Board Gets Right to Work with Great Ideas!
School Board Matters, January 11, 2024 meeting School Board meetings are ground zero for the culture wars. Our “School Board Matters”...
Vanessa Hall
Jan 17, 20244 min read
Uniting Virginia through Literacy
Choosing a Reading Curriculum that Works In 2022 the Virginia legislature passed The Virginia Literacy Act, often referred to as VLA. It...
Cheryl Binkley
Jan 11, 20243 min read
Frustrating Financial Aid: A Family Guide to the New FAFSA
Like many parents of high school seniors, my family has been knee deep in college applications since October. My son managed to meet all...
Vanessa Hall
Jan 10, 20245 min read
Anniversary of an Expensive Manufactured Crisis
If you care about public education, then you have noticed that school districts across the country have been under fire for the last...
Vanessa Hall
Dec 20, 20232 min read
School Board Matters: Honoring Outgoing School Board Members
December 14, 2023 School Board meetings have become ground zero for the culture wars. Our “School Board Matters” blog will include...
Vanessa Hall
Dec 19, 20233 min read
Parents Feel Doubly Violated by a Privacy Breach
Like tens of thousands of parents, I received a letter this week indicating that FCPS inadvertently released my child’s private...
Vanessa Hall
Dec 14, 20234 min read
Governor Youngkin, Stop Fixing What’s Right
One of Governor Youngkin’s many promises to Virginia was to expand charter schools in Virginia, taking desperately needed funding from...
Holly Hazard
Dec 7, 20232 min read
A (Seemingly) Pleasant Surprise from Virginia's Department of Education
A Review of the Northern Virginia VDOE Accountability Listening Session I don’t know if any of you have attended any of the VDOE...
Vanessa Hall
Dec 7, 20233 min read
Underfunded Education: The Crisis We Can't Ignore
Preparing for the 2024 General Assembly: Public Education Priorities The verdict is in. Not only is Virginia seriously underfunding its...
Marianne Burke, PhD
Nov 28, 20232 min read
School Board Matters: Blue Skies and Smiles Shining So Bright
November 9, 2023 School Board meetings have become ground zero for the culture wars, so 4 Public Education is introducing a new blog...
Vanessa Hall
Nov 15, 20238 min read
Education Apocalypse
Imagine a world where the Moms for Liberty and like-minded individuals were elected to the school board, state legislature, and...
Vanessa Hall
Oct 27, 20237 min read
Gaslighting the Public: Misinterpreting Student Performance and NAEP Scores (3 of 3)
Although Governor Youngkin was lambasted 18 months ago for his inaccurate conclusions about the current state of Virginia Public...
Marianne Burke, PhD
Oct 11, 20233 min read
Book Bans by any other Name Smell like Censorship
After a recent school board meeting, I was distracted by a Fairfax GOP-endorsed school board candidate yelling at me, when her friend...
Vanessa Hall
Oct 10, 20233 min read
Raise your Hand for Healthy School Environments Symposium
We need to allow people to talk and we need to be open-minded. Our differences don’t need to divide us–they can bring us together. - Dr....
Marianne Burke, PhD
Oct 5, 20232 min read
School Board Matters: A Focus on Literacy by Third Grade!
School Board meetings have become ground zero for the culture wars, so 4 Public Education is introducing a new blog called “School Board...
Vanessa Hall
Oct 5, 20233 min read
Unstoppable Stories: Banned Books Week (October 1-7)
As you may know, book bans have been on the rise with requests to ban books at record high in 2022. Like you, 4 Public Education is...
Vanessa Hall
Sep 30, 20234 min read
Get Involved in Renaming Woodson High School
After more than 60 years of being named for an active promoter of Massive Resistance to desegregation and FCPS's second longest FCPS...
Vanessa Hall
Sep 26, 20231 min read
Gaslighting the Public: Manufactured Crisis over SOL Scores (2 of 3)
For two years in a row, Governor Youngkin has blamed slow growth and recovery of SOL test scores on his predecessors and pandemic school...
Marianne Burke (PhD) and Vanessa Hall
Sep 19, 20235 min read
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Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education Costly to Students: Incalculable Damage Ahead
Dismantling the U.S. Dept of Education won't decrease costs or bureaucracy, but it will harm our students' future, state budgets, and family expectations.
FCPS Blows Apart the "Abortion Scandal" Manufactured for the 2025 Election Cycle
Republican operatives published about a supposed abortion scandal at a local high school as an “October Surprise.” A legal investigation finds major discrepancies between their stories and the truth.
With Amicus Briefs like These, Who Serves Virginians?
AG Miyares intervenes on behalf of a significant number of America First Legal cases. It begs the question: is Miyares working for Virginians or Project 2025?
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