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What Leadership Looks Like – Teacher Shortages, Learning Losses and Gov. Youngkin
by James C. Sherlock Sometimes you just have to let leaders speak for themselves. This is one of those times. Faced with critical teacher shortages and learning losses, I publish here the Governor’s Executive Order 3 and Bridging the Gap: … Continue reading
Why So Few Cadets on VMI Matriculation Day?
by Carmen Villani On August 20, 2022, Virginia Military Institute’s Superintendent Major General Cedric Wins announced that a total of 372 matriculants (or “Rats” by tradition) had signed in, officially beginning their four-year journey through the trials, tribulations, traditions, and … Continue reading
Posted in Culture wars, Education (higher ed)
John Reid Says What Everyone Is Thinking
The WRVA talk show host calls out the men without chests. Good on him for doing so. by Shaun Kenney Most people can read, yet very few of us are literate souls. Like most people, we can perform the functions of … Continue reading
Solar Development Continues to Erode VA Farmland
by Barbara Hollingsworth First published by the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy. Virginia lost about 2,000 acres of productive farmland per week in 2021, according to data released in February by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. There are many reasons … Continue reading
Liberal Democracy, Illiberal Institutions
Maybe no one wants to work for a public education system that hates our values. by Shaun Kenney Carl Schmitt isn’t precisely a household name. The German political theorist was a deep reader of Thucydides and Thomas Hobbes, whose evolution … Continue reading
Posted in Culture wars, Education (higher ed), Education (K-12), Media
Tagged Shaun Kenney
UVa Board Meetings Should Get a Lot More Interesting
by James A. Bacon Governor Glenn Youngkin has announced his appointments to the boards of visitors of Virginia’s colleges and universities, at least one of which has the potential to be highly consequential — Bert Ellis, a serial entrepreneur and … Continue reading
Posted in Culture wars, Education (higher ed)
Tagged James A. Bacon, University of Virginia
Peay’s Service at VMI Honored
by James A. Bacon A year and a half after he was forced into resigning amidst allegations of “relentless racism” at the institution he ran for 17 years, J.H. Binford Peay III, has been honored by the VMI Board of … Continue reading
School Daze
by Jim McCarthy Governor Glenn Youngkin had an opportunity to withdraw his big-footed amendment to a bill that would have moved the election date of the Loudoun County School Board from 2022 to 2023 and vacate the nine board seats … Continue reading
Election Mulligan
by Jim McCarthy Virginia’s new governor has proposed a legislative amendment preempting the normal election cycle and terms of office for a county school board in what can only be described as a “do over.” The amendment moves a school … Continue reading
Posted in Culture wars, Education (K-12), Governance
Tagged Jim McCarthy, University of Virginia
Would TJ Be a Republican or Democrat Today?
by Jim McCarthy “Don’t know much about history,” admitted Art Garfunkel in the opening line of the 1978 Wonderful World hit song. History was but one of several subjects Mr. Garfunkel recognized as wanting in his store of knowledge. A … Continue reading
Does Loudoun Need a Police Department?
by Ken Reid The latest battle between the Left and Right in Loudoun is not over CRT, but PD – as in, “police department.” Should Virginia’s most-populous county transfer key law-enforcement functions from the elected sheriff to a newly created … Continue reading
A Complete Disconnect from Reality
by James A. Bacon A group of Black leaders has launched an initiative to preserve the teaching of Black history against what it calls a “whitewashing” by Governor Glenn Youngkin. Black History Is American History, a collaboration of the Leadership … Continue reading
Posted in Culture wars, Education (K-12), Media, Race and Race Relations
Tagged James A. Bacon
Fairfax’s Un-Affordable Housing Program
by Arthur Purves If you live in Fairfax County and are over 50, you may have received from the county a five-page 120-question survey to “…inform the county’s … Future Aging Plan.” Here’s the Fairfax County Taxpayers Alliance Future Aging … Continue reading
Virginia Dems Sense Blood In The Water
Virginia Republicans are bumping into a new reality of unelected institutions fighting them every inch of the way. by Shaun Kenney Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn is much less of a household name if he ever was one to begin with — author … Continue reading
Lazy Mainstream Media Lied to Virginia
by Kerry Dougherty Chances are you saw them. Friday’s headlines screaming that “133 Virginia School Superintendents” were protesting Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s reforms to public education, which had been a cornerstone of his campaign. Every dang school chief in the commonwealth … Continue reading
Posted in Culture wars, Education (K-12), Media
