A Complex (and Expensive!) Legal Showdown about Student Rights Continues
Theocratic Veto versus School Policy This is part 2 of coverage on Jane Doe v. Fairfax County School Board (FCSB) (CL-2024-0003171), a...
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Vanessa Hall
May 152 min
Focus on Equity, Literacy, and Excellence
2025 FCPS Budget Public Input At the May 14, 2024 Public Hearing in front of the Fairfax County School Board on the 2025 Budget, the...
Vanessa Hall
May 13 min
College Decisions Delayed. Thanks, FAFSA!
Today is May 1st. In an alternate reality where the U.S. Department of Education hadn’t completely botched the FAFSA form update,...
Marianne Burke, PhD
Mar 143 min
Governor, Show Your Commitment to Education by Funding our Schools
End of Session Update: Budget Amendments The 2024 General Assembly session ended on March 9th with 12 of the 4 Public Education priority...
Vanessa Hall
Mar 73 min
A Big Win for Students at the Supreme Court
TJ and FCPS Win in Court after Three Years of Litigation Fairfax County and Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) are celebrating a...
Vanessa Hall
Dec 14, 20234 min
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...
Holly Hazard
Nov 8, 20232 min
Tuesday’s Elections Send Message: Parents Want Robust Libraries, Inclusiveness, Truthful History
Pundits cast Virginia’s Tuesday general elections as a referendum on abortion rights. It was more than that. Further down the ballot...
Marianne Burke (PhD) and Vanessa Hall
Oct 30, 20234 min
Op-ed: Northern Virginia in the Crosshairs
Even before he was elected, Virginia Gov. [Glenn] Youngkin focused his attention on harmful, fabricated fibs about public education. He...
Marianne Burke, PhD
Oct 11, 20233 min
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...
Vanessa Hall
Oct 10, 20233 min
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...
Marianne Burke (PhD) and Vanessa Hall
Sep 19, 20233 min
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...
4PE Team
Jul 27, 20231 min
Speaking out Against Hate at the VA BOE
Although it was nowhere on the Virginia Board of Education agenda, nearly all public input today, July 27, 2023, was about Youngkin's...
Marianne Burke, PhD
Jul 11, 20235 min
Will the Supreme Court Affirmative Action Rulings affect TJ High School?
Supreme Court protests. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/03/us/affirmative-action-asian-americans-qa-cec/index.html
Cheryl Binkley
Jun 28, 20232 min
Did We Win? It depends on who you ask.
On Tuesday June 20, Virginians went to the polls in the preliminary stage of electing a new legislature. There are 140 seats in the...
Marianne Burke (PhD) and Vanessa Hall
Mar 22, 20232 min
Education or Indoctrination? Review of the Virginia History Standards Hearings
By the time you read this blog, public input will be closed for the Virginia History and Social Studies Standards of Learning (History...
Vanessa Hall
Mar 16, 20232 min
Our Schools are not Your Battleground: CNN Town Hall Review
CNN did no one any favors by framing the Youngkin Town Hall as “The War Over Education with Glenn Youngkin,” yet to many watching, it...
Holly Hazard
Jan 9, 20231 min
Thomas Jefferson's late National Merit notice is not a catastrophe
As printed in the Washington Post Opinion Section on Sunday, January 8th, 2023. Regarding the Jan. 5 Metro article “Va. AG will start...
Marianne Burke, PhD
May 27, 20222 min
Co-Ed Sex Education: Good for ALL Students
Speech on comprehensive sex education given by Marianne Burke to the Fairfax County Public School Board, May 26, 2022. Text slightly...
Vanessa Hall
May 27, 20223 min
Statement on the Uvalde Tragedy
Our hearts go out to the families who lost family and loved ones in Uvalde and the other gun shootings over the last three decades. We...
Rick Clayton
Feb 23, 20222 min
Book Challenges Undermine Public Schools
Across America, a small minority of people seeking to undermine our schools point to individual books and declare unilaterally that they...
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