Voting for the School Board 101
You may know that early voting began on Friday, September 22, 2023. To help you navigate school board election season in Virginia, 4...
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Vanessa Hall
- 4 days ago
- 1 min
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 17
- 5 min
School Board Matters: Student Activism is Front and Center
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
- Sep 14
- 2 min
Safety and Inclusion Are Key to Success
Respect Student Voices My heart broke listening to adults demonizing and dehumanizing students at the last school board meeting demonize...
Marianne Burke, PhD
- Sep 14
- 2 min
Don't Be Fooled into Thinking that FCPS is Failing
All these school board seats are up for election this November, and you can tell things are heating up because false claims are...
Vanessa Hall
- Sep 6
- 3 min
School Board Matters: Call for Advisory Committee Volunteers
School Board meetings have become ground zero for the culture wars, so 4 Public Education is introducing a new blog covering Fairfax...
Holly Hazard
- Aug 10
- 3 min
Where's Youngkin?
Virginia’s Governor has declared war on public education with a sleight of hand. While touting himself as the “education” governor, he’s...
Vanessa Hall
- May 3
- 2 min
Put Mental Health First
One in six kids aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year, and half of all mental health conditions begin by age 14 with up...
Vanessa Hall
- Jan 17
- 2 min
Equity and Merit Should Coexist
I’m dismayed by recent news about FCPS…that delayed paper certificates are taking priority over critical needs of all of our students and...
Holly Hazard
- Nov 18, 2022
- 2 min
An Apple for this Educator
Earlier this month, representatives for 4 Public Education met with Dr. Michelle Reid, the new superintendent for Fairfax County Public...
Jenna White
- Nov 1, 2022
- 2 min
Statement Regarding FCPS School Board Member Karen Keys-Gamarra
4 Public Education strongly opposes ableism in all of its forms whether in the classroom or in public, which includes the use of slurs...
Vanessa Hall
- Oct 26, 2022
- 4 min
Undermining Public Education: Efforts to Defund and Dismantle Your Public School (Part 2)
Dark money's influence on public education is not new. For decades, groups funded by billionaires have worked to push policies and...
4PE Team
- Oct 26, 2022
- 2 min
Joint Statement on the FCPS Teach Truth Resolution
October 26, 2022 4 Public Education, Fairfax Federation of Teachers, Fairfax Education Association, Stand and Deliver and FCPS Pride...
Vanessa Hall
- Oct 20, 2022
- 3 min
Undermining Public Education: Fake Grassroots, Real Dark Money (Part 1)
Governor Glenn Youngkin and his allies used attacks on public education to win the governorship in 2021. National and local dark money...
Holly Hazard
- Feb 15, 2022
- 3 min
Your Ignorance Is Not My Bliss
The radical right strategy for accessing the deep pockets of the American taxpayer, and diverting the billions set aside for public...
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