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18-Year-Old Arrested Following Wakefield High School Lockdown

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EdNews Virginia | February 3, 2023 The Arlington County Police Department announced the arrest of 18-year-old Kenan Owens following yesterday’s “lockdown” incident at Wakefield High School. According to a news release, he was arrested earlier today, and is currently being held without bond. Owens is now charged with trespassing, in addition to several firearms-related offenses. […]

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100 Gather in Arlington to Celebrate ‘School Choice Week’

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Pictured: Steven Mosley EdNews Virginia | January 30, 2023 Roughly 100 men, women and kids gathered Saturday evening in celebration of National School Choice Week, hosted by EdReform Virginia and the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF). The crowd enjoyed dinner on the second floor of Arlington, Virginia’s Rocklands Barbecue and heard from a variety of speakers

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January 22–28 Is ‘Virginia School Choice Week’

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EdNews Virginia | January 24, 2023 January 22–28 is “Virginia School Choice Week,” Governor Glenn Youngkin has declared. In a proclamation shared with EdNews Virginia, Youngkin notes that “School Choice Week is celebrated across the country by millions of students, parents, educators, schools, and organizations to raise awareness of the need for effective educational options.”

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BASILE: Virginia Schools Are Working Against Kids

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EdNews Virginia | January 23, 2023 Corey DeAngelis and Joe Mobley joined host Tom Basile on Newsmax to break down the controversy engulfing Northern Virginia public schools over the withholding of academic merit commendations from students, many of whom are Asian American. “Now, 17 schools in Virginia have been exposed for this apparently racist policy,”

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Civil Rights Probe Widens to Include Entire Fairfax County School District

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EdNews Virginia | January 9, 2023 Attorney General Jason Miyares announced today that his probe into possible violations of the Virginia Human Rights Act by school officials in Fairfax County will now include the entire district, not just Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. “It’s concerning that multiple schools throughout Fairfax County withheld

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VIDEO: Winsome Sears Blasts Loudoun County School Officials

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EdNews Virginia | December 9, 2022 Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears joined Fox & Friends Thursday to discuss the ongoing controversy engulfing Loudoun County Public Schools. On Monday, a grand jury’s stinging rebuke of the embattled district was unsealed by a county judge. Grand jurors concluded that Loudoun school administrators “failed at every juncture” in

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Unanimous Vote: Loudoun County School Board Fires Ziegler

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📷: Loudoun County’s Broad Run High School (Creative Commons/James H. Dunning) EdNews Virginia | December 7, 2022 Members of the Loudoun County School Board voted unanimously to fire Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) Superintendent Scott Ziegler last night. The action follows Monday’s release of a scathing grand jury report, which concluded that school administrators “failed

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