This eleventh annual economic forecast, prepared by Chmura Economics and Analytics, places a special emphasis on analyzing the state of transportation in the Commonwealth. It also forecasts employment in Virginia will expand to 0.4% in 2010 after receding 3.2% in 2009. Employment growth is expected to accelerate to 1.9% in...
From President Obama to the conservative-leaning Thomas B. Fordham Institute, consensus is growing about the importance of quality teaching to student achievement. Students with strong teachers will eventually excel, while those with weak teachers will find it difficult to recover. The challenge, of course, is to identify, train and retain...
The Jefferson Journal: Taking State Parks Off the State’s Books, Part II
The idea of long-term concessions with private recreation management firms for the operation and maintenance of state parks has generated feedback ranging from supportive to skeptical. But attached to some of that skepticism have been myths about what this new concept for public lands management is … and isn’t. Here...