Analysis and Commentary

Reforming Virginia’s School Funding Formula

Analysis and Commentary /

An Idea Whose Time Has Come Derrick Max | October 28, 2026 (Jefferson Forum) — For nearly two decades, Chris Braunlich and the Jefferson Forum’s predecessor, the Thomas Jefferson Institute, have advocated for replacing Virginia’s complicated, resource-driven Standards of Quality (SOQ) school funding formula with a system of Weighted Student Funding. So it was encouraging

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Analysis: Many Educators Confuse Technology Engagement With Student Learning

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John Ransom | October 26, 2026 (Heartlander News) — An NBC News report investigating how schools are increasingly relying on YouTube for instruction highlights tensions over what learning engagement really means. Those tensions increasingly point to a conflict over whom technology really serves in the classroom: technology providers or students? According to the NBC report,

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