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Virginia’s Schools of Education – Part 1 – Overview of the Upcoming Series
I had barely started a draft of a series on Virginia’s schools of education when it was inadvertently released Saturday. We took it down when we discovered the error. by James C. Sherlock People on both sides of the political divide have acknowledged enormous challenges to Virginia’s pre-K-12 public education system. Some of the problems…
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Why the Enrollment Decline at VMI? Look to White Males for an Explanation.
by James A. Bacon When the Virginia Military Institute re-opened for its fall semester Monday with its usual parade-ground pageantry, it counted only 375 cadets in the 1st-year class. That’s down 24% from 494 the previous year. “We believe there are a number of contributing factors,” says VMI spokesman Bill Wyatt. “Schools throughout the commonwealth…
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Division Ends Today at the Virginia Military Institute
by The Cadet Editorial Staff To the families of matriculants: This is a difficult day for you. As you leave your daughters and sons to face the struggles and challenges that they are about to meet, take heart in the fact that you, too, are about to become a part of the VMI family. Today…
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Schools Will Contribute to Suicides Under Current Virginia Transgender Student Guidelines
by James C. Sherlock Teen suicide is a major problem in America and Virginia. The Virginia Department of Health reported in 2021 that suicide is the second leading cause of death among Virginia’s youth. I have talked around but not about teen suicide in previous articles about transgender adolescents. A study published by the National Institutes of…
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Uh, Governor? This is How It Works
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Someone needs to tell Governor Youngkin or his Secretary of Finance how things work in the state’s financial structure. According to a recent report in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Governor said that he has directed Randy McCabe, the Comptroller, or director of the Department of Accounts, to “to set aside $397 million…
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More Money for Schools, More Parent Protections. Where Are the Higher Expectations?
by James A. Bacon The Youngkin administration has been relatively quiet on the subject of K-12 education since May when it released a blistering report on the perilous condition of Virginia’s public schools. Then Friday, a week before the scheduled release of the latest Standards of Learning test scores, Secretary of Education Aimee Guidera provided…
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The Post Office’s Explanation for This Makes No Sense
by Dick Hall-Sizemore The United States Postal Service has shut down its Montpelier Station office because a display depicting racial segregation in Virginia was “unacceptable to the Postal Service.” A brief history of the site is included in an article about the closure in the Culpeper Star-Exponent that is reprinted in today’s Richmond Times Dispatch.…
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The Circle of Government Fecklessness and Homelessness – Newport News Edition
by James C. Sherlock Newport News ought to work. It starts with Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS). I’ll let them describe it. Newport News Shipbuilding is the sole designer, builder and refueler of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and one of two providers of U.S. Navy submarines. With approximately $4 billion in revenues and more than 25,000…
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Sorry, Can You Please Explain Again How Systemic Racism in Healthcare Works?
by James A. Bacon The U.S. healthcare system, we hear with increasing frequency, is systemically racist. Here in Virginia, for instance, we hear that Black women suffer a higher rate of complications in childbirth than White women. But any theory of systemic racism in healthcare needs to explain certain inconvenient facts that I stumbled across…
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Chincoteague, Virginia: Annual Pony Swim
by Kerry Dougherty When we began this website in December of 2017 we promised that there would be no days off. That didn’t mean we’d never leave town. It meant that when we did we’d take you with us. So, get out your bug spray and boots and join us for the annual Chincoteague Pony…