Virginia: Judge Temporarily Blocks Youngkin’s Ban on Mask Mandates
Sometimes common sense prevails over craven politicians. A judge in Virginia on Friday handed down a temporary ruling that seven school districts could keep their...
Category : Virginia
Virginia: More Than Half of School Districts Defying Youngkin Ban on Mask Mandates
The Washington Post reports that more than half the school districts in Virginia are defying Governor Youngkin’s order to eliminate mask mandates. Youngkin boasted on...
Peter Greene: How to Report Your Teacher to Governor Youngkin’s Stasi
Governor Youngkin invited parents to report the names of teachers who are violating the state’s vague and ill-defined law banning the teaching of “divisive concepts,”...
Youngkin Sends His Children to Elite Private Schools That Teach Critical Race Theory
Glenn Youngkin’s campaign for Governor of Virginia was fueled in large part by attacks on public schools. Youngkin said that the state’s public schools were...
Peter Greene: Advocate of Book Burning Becomes Chairman of Virginia School Board
Peter Greene tells the ignominious story of the Spottsylvania, Virginia, school board. One of the school board members, Kirk Twigg, is a conservative Christian who...
No, Virginia, Abraham Lincoln Did Not Debate Frederick Douglass
Christina Cauterucci wrote in Slate about “the debate that never happened.” A bill submitted to the House of Delegates by Wren Williiams, a newly elected...
Mercedes Schneider on Virginia’s New Secretary of Education
Mercedes Schneider digs into the background of Virginia’s new Secretary of Education. She is a data collector, not an educator. On the good side, she...
Reader: Racism Explains the Youngkin Victory in Virginia
A reader who signs in as “Democracy” posted the following comment in response to Jennifer Berkshire’s article in The Nation. Berkshire argued that Terry McAuliffe...
Jennifer Berkshire: The Real Reason McAuliffe Lost in Virginia
Jennifer Berkshire, education journalist and co-author of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door (with Jack Schneider) explains in The Nation the real reason why Terry...
Virginia: The Fraud Behind Glen Youngkin’s Attack on “Critical Race Theory
Glenn Youngkin, the Republican who won the race for governor in Virginia, centered his campaign on education, specifically on his insistence that parents should have...