Tag: schools
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An Open Letter to Sen. Louise Lucas About Funding New Richmond Schools
Editor’s note: Paul Goldman, a Richmond attorney and former chair of the Democratic Party of Virginia, asked us to publish the letter below, which he sent last week to state Sen. Louise Lucas of Portsmouth, a fellow Democrat who serves as president pro tempore of the Virginia Senate. As of today, Sen. Lucas has not…
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Newport News School Chief About To Be Sacked
by Kerry Dougherty As I wrote this I debated whether or not to put a question mark at the end of my headline. Newport News School Chief About To Be Sacked? I decided against it. News reports seem certain that the Newport News School Board will vote tonight to fire School Superintendent George Parker for…
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Anti-Religious Satanic Group Demands Equal Treatment in Chesapeake
by Shaun Kenney There are certain political groups that we rightly exclude from the political commons. Not because in doing so they are antithetical to our ideas of liberalism (lowercase-L) or democracy (lowercase-D), but because they are antithetical to the moral tradition from which both liberalism and democracy spring. Of course, our Founders were wise…
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Ed Department Office of Civil Rights Rules Against Fairfax County
by Asra Q. Nomani FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — Tears of joy came to the eyes of special education advocates Callie Oettinger and Debra Tisler as they read a much-anticipated decision by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. For years, they have been advocating — to deaf ears in Fairfax County Public Schools…