The Thomas Jefferson Institute issued its tenth annual “Fairfax County Budget Analysis” and it once again shows that using the county’s own numbers that the budget difficulties faced today could have been avoided had the budget merely increased by the rate of inflation and population growth since FY 2000. This...
EPA equates an agriculturally related spill of pesticides, fertilizers, fuel, coolants and oil-petroleum-based products as a major problem on farms and ranches. Farms and ranches, according to EPA, have substantial problems with the prevention and control of oil spills. EPA claims “Farms and ranches constitute a sizeable portion of the...
Delegates Jimmie Massie (R-Henrico), Algie Howell (D-Norfolk) and Tag Greason (R-Loudoun) have introduced legislation (HB 2314) creating a new tax credit program to improve education for at-risk children. Corporations will be able to contribute to scholarship foundations and receive a 70 percent tax credit. In turn, those scholarship organizations must...
December 2010 could well go down as a dramatically important month in modern Virginia history. Here’s why …
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Two Reforms for Virginia’s Students
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 students. But until now, little progress has been made on either front. That may be about to change …
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