There is more to love about education in Virginia thanks to the budget Governor Glenn Youngkin signed into law on June 22, 2022. It contains the largest education budget in Virginia history at $3.2 billion, $900 million for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, a 10 percent teacher raise, and a statewide literacy...
One of the challenges in public education – in any bureaucracy, public or private — is the tendency to establish an “echo chamber” of ideas. In public schools, this reinforces the loudest voices and makes it hard for creative educators or an informed citizenry to burst through with new ideas....
In promoting its proposed Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, Dominion Energy Virginia has made many specific projections about its costs and performance. The State Corporation Commission is now being advised to convert one or more of them into binding promises, with financial consequences for the utility and its shareholders...
First of Two ArticlesBy Stephen D. Haner Virginia’s State Corporation Commission has now received a series of legal briefs offering opinions on what steps, under the law, it can take to protect Dominion Energy Virginia consumers from the massive risks facing its proposed offshore wind facility. Those risks range from...
Virginia’s gasoline and diesel taxes will rise 7% on July 1, about three more cents per gallon when all the elements of the tax are combined. This is theinflation-driven cost of living adjustment which Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) and most legislative Republicans tried to short circuit, but which was preserved...
Virginia’s auto industry overlords in California have a new set of proposed mandates for both electric and internal combustion vehicles which, once adopted, will automatically apply here in the Commonwealth. They do not advance the date for banning the sale of new gasoline and diesel vehicles earlier than 2035 but...
Last week Virginia collected another $76 million in carbon tax dollars through the ongoing Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative allowance auction. That was the sixth such sale since Virginia joined RGGI, and the state’s total tax take is now $378 million in 18 months. Do not for one minute allow yourself...
Since publishing its first study in February of 1997, the Thomas Jefferson Institute has become the most influential public policy foundation in Virginia. According to many in our state, this foundation is now the most respected non-partisan voice suggesting creative alternatives to current state and local government programs and policies. When this foundation...
Foundation Contact Information Student Focus Anabaptist Scholarship Foundation of Virginia Todd Glenn asfofva@ email, com (540) 820-8633 Students wishing to attend any Christian school statewide. Anna Julia Cooper Scholarship Foundation Laura McGowan me go wanl@ai c es. or g (804) 477-5163 www. ai c es. or g/scholarshin Students primarily from Richmond’s East End wishing to attend...
The Fourth Annual “Excellence in Education ” Policy Luncheon sponsored by The Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm (during a break at the Virginia School Boards Association meeting) Williamsburg Marriott Hotel 50 Kingsmill Road Williamsburg, VA Registration: $15 (prior to November 1; $25 after November 1)...
