by Dick Hall-Sizemore
The backers of Glenn Youngkin on this blog have got to be feeling confused, at least, if not downright betrayed.
Youngkin promised to expand the number of charter schools in the Commonwealth. They cheered.
Now, he has revealed his plan for charter schools. As reported today by the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Governor has gotten “the support of a number of Virginia higher education leaders who signed onto a proposal by the administration to open charter schools run by their institutions and funded by the state.”
That’s right. The Governor wants the institutions of higher education to be his vehicle to expand the number of charter schools in the Commonwealth. And he is proposing to pay them $150 million over the biennium to do it.
These are those same institutions of higher education that have been criticized endlessly on this blog for being hopelessly and dogmatically liberal; squelchers of dissenting viewpoints; purveyors of critical race theory; awash in diversity, equity, and inclusion nonsense; and top-heavy with bureaucracy, among other evils. In addition, their schools of education, which would probably take the lead on the development and running of these charter schools, have been held to be at the root of all that is wrong with education in Virginia today.
The sounds you hear are screams of disbelief and anguish.
