📷: Loudoun County High School (Wikimedia Commons) EdNews Virginia | January 17, 2023 On Tuesday, America First Legal (AFL) filed a lawsuit on behalf of The Daily Wire against the Loudoun County School Board. At issue is the embattled school district’s adherence to Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The lawsuit stems from the investigative […]
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📷: Louis Kokonis / Alexandria City High School EdNews Virginia | January 8, 2024 High school math teacher Louis Kokonis, beloved by generations of Alexandria students, died on January 4, 2024. He was 91. Kokonis, the longest-serving educator in the history of Alexandria City Public Schools, taught math since 1959. In 2018, the Louis Kokonis
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EdNews Virginia | December 20, 2023 Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares is reminding the commonwealth’s school division leaders of their legal and moral obligations to combat all forms of discrimination, harassment and intimidation. In a letter to superintendents on Thursday, Miyares decried the rising “scourge of antisemitism” following the “barbaric” October 7 terrorist attack on
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EdNews Virginia | December 14, 2023 Fairfax County School Board Member Karl Frisch was sworn in to a second term Wednesday night — with his hand on a stack of five highly controversial, ostensibly “banned” books. The five books were “LGBTQ-themed” in nature, according to Blue Virginia: All five books are currently available from Amazon
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EdNews Virginia | October 1, 2023 The America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, recently issued a fact sheet on the dire state of Virginia’s educational system — and the possible role of school choice in solving the crisis. “National test results for 2022 show that school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic had
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EdNews Virginia | August 16, 2023 New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy wants all public schools in the Garden State to withhold information regarding students’ gender transitions from their families. Three school districts — Middletown, Marlboro and Manalapan-Englishtown — are now fighting the state government in court. The embattled school boards voted in June to direct
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EdNews Virginia | August 2, 2023 Ginny Gentles — director of the IWF Education Freedom Center and trustee of EdReform Virginia — joined Tuesday’s O’Connor & Company radio program on WMAL. Gentles told co-hosts Larry O’Connor and Julie Gunlock that she will be hosting a lively conversation Wednesday evening about the urgent need for educational
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EdNews Virginia | July 20, 2023 The Virginia Catholic Conference (VCC) issued a joint statement from the Commonwealth’s two bishops today, lauding new Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) model policies as “a considerable improvement and much needed remediation of the policies put in place by the prior Administration.” We commend Governor Youngkin and his Administration
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EdNews Virginia | July 19, 2023 The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) issued new model policies for school divisions on Tuesday. A 16-page document, titled Model Policies to Ensure Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia’s Public Schools, aims to reverse 2021 Model Policies that diminished the role of parents in
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EdNews Virginia | June 14, 2023 Following a judge’s May 30 determination that a Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) internal review of sexual assault incidents did not amount to privileged attorney-client information, the embattled district finally shared the documentation with Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares. A June 7 statement from the Loudoun County School Board
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