Category Archives: Education

Beware Their Cheating Hearts

In 1998, the first year of SOL testing, only 2 percent of Virginia’s schools received full accreditation. This year, the State is bragging that 98 percent of Virginia’s schools are accredited. What they don’t tell you is that both the State and the schools cheated to get those scores. Continue reading

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Bringing Quality Schools to Virginia

In much of Virginia students are quite successful in their public schools, but there are also significant pockets where the public school system has failed the students who attend them. The Virginia Education Association and the Virginia School Boards Association should focus on bringing quality charters into the Commonwealth to address those failings. Continue reading

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Alarming High School Dropout Rates: Virginia is Not Immune

The consequences of this trend will not be borne by the individuals alone either, society too, will pay a steep price. Continue reading

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On Education, McDonnell and Duncan Stand Together

Meaning both face serious challenges as they work to bring greater options and choice into our educational systems. Continue reading

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Reforming the Dollars by Weighting the Funding

Weighted Student Funding formulas can force school systems to take a hard look at how they are spending money. A new study shows that such formulas have helped schools facing budget shortfalls make up the difference while minimizing the cuts to classrooms. Virginia should take a look at this new way of spending our education dollars. Continue reading

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