While 62 percent of Virginia’s voters believe the state’s public school system is good or excellent, by similar margins those same voters also favor education choice reforms such as charter schools, tax-credit scholarships, and school vouchers. The poll was conducted by Braun Research, which has previously conducted polling for Gallup...
How do we protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay? Every once in a while we get a peak at someone who goes beyond the headlines and offers up something more like sense and sensibility. Here’s just one example.
... Could the high-profile Kerfuffle over the state’s contract to consolidate and manage Virginia’s information technology (IT) infrastructure diminish our appetite for outsourcing and public-private partnerships?
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Will Bipartisanship Rule in Building Charter Schools?
A 17-point victory offers newly-elected Governor Bob McDonnell a mandate on those policies he made part of his platform. Developing quality public charter schools – particularly those that would serve as a turn-around mechanism – seems a good a place as any to start. But will bipartisanship rule, or will...