Is Florida an educational wasteland? It’s an important question because some members of the Virginia General Assembly seem to think so and base their decisions […]
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.
One of the hottest topics in education today is the growth of online learning or virtual schools. Today there are more than a million enrollments […]
Polls demonstrate that Virginians support the concept of performance pay for teachers and creating incentives for the private sector to offer scholarships for low income […]
School board members frequently say that they could accomplish the same things successful charter schools do – more, in fact – if only they had […]
Did a federal program encouraging the use of scientifically-based reading methods lead to a decline in students classified as having a “specific learning disability?” And […]
Polls indicate that the vast majority of Virginians are unfamiliar with online learning. Yet, today more than 70 percent of school districts in the United […]