Submitted for your consideration: A successful reading program that may die in the cross-fire of No Child Left Behind’s Twilight Zone politics.
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A Tuition Assistance Grant (TAG) program would allow Virginia students with disabilities to attend the public or private school of their parents’ choice. But opponents attack this aid for disabled students, charging that it would drain public schools of funding. In fact, however, this study demonstrates that local school systems...
Here’s another way to get traffic moving again, backed up by a decade of data from Southern California … if only there’s the political will to make it work.
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No legislation is perfect. But the General Assembly’s transportation package is a good start — providing more resources and, more importantly, greater accountability.
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Forty million Americans — a million right here in Virginia — have such low reading skills that they are fundamentally illiterate. Can we upgrade the skills of our workforce and imporve the efficiency and effectiveness of Virginia’s investment in public education? Yes, we can, says this new report. In Virginia...
In choosing between protecting turf or doing what’s best for children, the House Appropriations Committee has chosen – turf. Here’s why.
... John Chichester and the Senate Finance Committee Democrats may have killed the best chance of addressing Virginia transportation challenges. Their obstructionist tactics are aimed at just one thing: Raising taxes again.
... The General Assembly has important work ahead … and its not just about transportation. Will they meet the challenge?
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Senator Walter Stosch has introduced SB 1419, a bill providing Tuition Assistance Grants for Students With Disabilities. Because both the bill and Senator Stosch have been the subject of ad hominem attacks and distortions from those who oppose this additional educational opportunity for children with disabilities, this set of Serious...
Time for a “Roads Blueprint”
Private sector financing and user-based fees offer the revenues needed to fix Virginia’s transportation system. Now we need a blueprint on how to spend it wisely.
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