Preparing for the 2024 General Assembly: Public Education Priorities The verdict is in. Not only is Virginia seriously underfunding its...

November 9, 2023 School Board meetings have become ground zero for the culture wars, so 4 Public Education is introducing a new blog...

Even before he was elected, Virginia Gov. [Glenn] Youngkin focused his attention on harmful, fabricated fibs about public education. He...

Imagine a world where the Moms for Liberty and like-minded individuals were elected to the school board, state legislature, and...

A recent poll by the Washington Post and George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government revealed factors that may...

Although Governor Youngkin was lambasted 18 months ago for his inaccurate conclusions about the current state of Virginia Public...

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....

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...

For two years in a row, Governor Youngkin has blamed slow growth and recovery of SOL test scores on his predecessors and pandemic school...

Governor Youngkin continues to gaslight the public by manufacturing problems that he continues to blame on public schools in Virginia....

On August 15, 2023, FCPS Superintendent Dr. Michelle Reid made an official statement after community members expressed concern about...

Virginia’s Governor has declared war on public education with a sleight of hand. While touting himself as the “education” governor, he’s...

Although it was nowhere on the Virginia Board of Education agenda, nearly all public input today, July 27, 2023, was about Youngkin's...

Last week, Glenn Youngkin’s Department of Education released their so-called “ Model Policies on Ensuring Privacy, Dignity, and Respect...

The following is a transcript of remarks made by 4 PE's Cheryl Binkley made to the Virginia Board of Education at their meeting on April...

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...

UPDATE: Please provide written input on the Virginia History SOLs before the March 21st deadline. March 13th-March 21st, the Virginia Board of Education will host public hearings on the new proposed version of Virginia History Standards of Learning (SOLs) at six locations in Virginia . This is the opportunity for your voice to echo through history about the quality of instruction our children receive in the decades to come. Despite almost universal condemnation from parent

The new, proposed, history and social studies Standards of Learning (SOL) are moving forward despite almost universal condemnation from...

The below was published in the Richmond Times Dispatch on February 4th, 2023 . When Jillian Balow arrived in January 2022 as state superintendent of instruction, there were three major issues facing Virginia schools: the pandemic recovery, teacher shortages and revisions to the history and social sciences standards. Pandemic recovery is being addressed by local districts with federal funds and grants. The teacher shortage has been worsened by Balow’s implementation of Executi

Virginia Organizations and Community Leaders call for the Virginia Board of Education to Pass the August 2022 version of the proposed...