Virginia this week joins the rest of the nation in celebrating “National School Choice Week” from a special position: As one of 11 states with […]
Christian Braunlich
Chris Braunlich is Co-President and CEO of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, Virginia’s non-partisan public policy foundation. He was appointed by Governor Bob McDonnell to the Virginia State Board of Education, where his colleagues elected him president of the Board.
As part of his “ALL STUDENTS” education reform package, Governor Bob McDonnell has proposed removing the barriers that prevent Virginia school divisions from working with […]
In 1971 fax machines were “high tech.” China was an isolated country, not a world economic player. And the TC Williams Titans were about to […]
In the film adaption of Joseph Heller’s anti-war novel, Captain John Yossarian defines the phrase “Catch-22” this way: “In order to be grounded, I’ve got […]
Joseph Heller’s novel had nothing on Virginia’s charter school law. In the Catch-22 of Virginia charter schools, only schools that look like traditional public schools […]
There was a time when Glenn Booker might easily have been classified as a child without hope. The arc of his early life suggested a […]