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DOE Issues New Guidance on Religious Liberty

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EdNews Virginia | February 6, 2025 The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has issued new federal guidance on religious freedom in public, government-run elementary and secondary schools. The new guidance, unveiled Thursday, fulfills the current administration’s pledge to safeguard religious liberties in the nation’s classrooms. The DOE’s new guidance supersedes the older version issued under […]

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Tension Mounts Over ‘Sanctuary’ School Districts

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Arlington, Chesterfield and Fairfax in Center of National Firestorm EdNews Virginia | February 3, 2026 A new investigation by Defending Education has designated more than 700 school districts nationwide as “immigration sanctuaries.” The list features districts with formal resolutions or guidance designed to resist federal immigration authorities. Among the hundreds of sanctuary districts on Defending

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Fairfax Schools on Track to Spend Over $16M on Legal Fees in FY 2026

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Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | January 27, 2026 (EdNews Virginia) — Halfway through fiscal year 2026, Fairfax County Public Schools’ (FCPS) total expenditure on law firms to date is more than $8 million, likely making this fiscal year the most legally expensive year in FCPS history. FCPS Legal Fees (FY 2020–Present) Fiscal Year Legal Fees FY 2020

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Spanberger Issues First Order on K-12 Education

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EdNews Virginia | January 20, 2026 On her first day in office, Governor Abigail Spanberger signed Executive Order Four, titled “Committing to Academic Excellence and Affirming the Commonwealth’s Commitment to Providing a High-Quality Public Education.” The order serves as the administration’s formal roadmap for K-12 priorities, specifically targeting what the Governor describes as “instructional gaps”

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Bipartisan Support for Independent Audit of Fairfax County’s Budget

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School Division’s Legal Bills Continue to Swell Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | December 30, 2025 (EdNews Virginia) — Even Sen. Louise Lucas (D-18), Virginia Senate president pro tempore, knows the last thing Fairfax County needs is more money. Earlier this month, Sen. Lucas posted on X, “I’m getting sick and tired of localities in Northern Virginia (especially Fairfax) spreading

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School ‘Equity’ Lessons Are Too Often Reductive, One-Sided

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Nathan Brinkman | October 29, 2025 My daughter’s public, government-run middle school has scheduled a “Family Equity Forum.” The RSVP form included a section inviting “suggestions for discussion topics and whether you can lend expertise to these efforts.” Here’s what I wrote: In recent years, Swanson’s equity initiatives have too often felt very reductive, defining

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Fairfax Schools Waste More Tax Dollars on Inconclusive ‘Investigation’

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Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | October 20, 2025 In response to a Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) teacher’s allegations that staff at Centreville High School arranged and funded an abortion for a minor student without her guardian’s knowledge, the district’s leadership hired a notoriously expensive law firm – King & Spalding – to investigate. Many of the

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