Gaslighting the Public: Manufactured Crisis over SOL Scores (Part 2)
For two years in a row, Governor Youngkin has blamed slow growth and recovery of SOL test scores on his predecessors and pandemic school...
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4PE Team
- Jul 27
- 1 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
- 5 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
- 2 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
- 2 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
- 2 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
- 1 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, 2022
- 2 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, 2022
- 3 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...
Ric Clayton
- Feb 23, 2022
- 2 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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