Foreword The normal business cycle downturn that was impacting state revenue worsened after the September 11th terrorist attack on our country. The budget “short fall” in […]
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The Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy is anon-partisan research and education organization devoted to improving the lives of the people in Virginia. The Institute was […]
While Virginia’s economy continues to grow and garner accolades such as the 2019 CNBC Best State to Do Business, threats to Virginia’s prosperity loom. Each year more […]
Senator Mark Obenshain and Delegate Rob Bell have proposed a Virginia constitutional amendment permitting the State Board of Education to authorize public charter schools. If passed […]
1/9/2011 – Local school boards are understandably drooling over the possibility of getting out from under the poorly-devised accountability rules of No Child Left Behind […]
A part of Governor Bob McDonnell’s trio of education improvement laws this year was the establishment of procedures for local school boards to contract for […]
12/15/2011 – Shortly after I was elected to the Fairfax County School Board in 1995, a gentleman rose at a school budget meeting to ask, […]
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 […]
Judging from the platforms of both gubernatorial candidates, Virginia’s Standards of Learning exams may be in for a tougher time next year. Both Ken Cuccinelli […]
“The research shows that kids who have two, three, four strong teachers in a row will eventually excel, no matter what their background, while kids […]