Over the weekend, the Obama administration released a blueprint meant to overhaul No Child Left Behind (NCLB) that, for one, would provide localities and states greater control over how to deal with struggling schools. You can view the full blueprint …
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In an op-ed today in the Free Lance-Star, Loretta Lynn Miller urges Stafford County to put education first. Loretta is an English Teacher at Brooke Point High School. Here is the op-ed: VIRGINIA IS NOT a poor state! The Census …
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Last week Forbes released a list of the top 25 richest counties in the nation. Stafford County was ranked as the 12th richest county in the nation, with the median household income at $89,536.00 and the percentage of residents 25 …
Here is the letter a teacher received in the mail from Speaker Bill Howell (R-28th) yesterday: There are so many things wrong with this letter; I don’t even know where to begin. Howell couldn’t be more dishonest and misleading – …
While President Obama looks to boost federal spending on education within Virginia and nationwide, Gov. McDonnell has decided to make catastrophic cuts to education funding within Virginia. President Obama has proposed the following key education investments for Virginia: $1 billion …
The Commonwealth of Virginia is currently facing a $4.5 billion shortfall in the 2010-2012 biennial budget. All of this is on top of the $7 billion already cut under the prior biennial budget. Information continues to emerge in small doses …