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Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | July 17, 2026 (IWFeatures) — Several universities have recently reversed policies put into place during the pandemic to make standardized tests optional for applicants. At the end of May, Yale joined all the other Ivy League universities, in addition to Stanford and Caltech, in announcing its reinstated SAT or ACT test requirement for future […]

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | May 30, 2026 (IWFeatures) — According to a news report published last week, a transgender-identifying student allegedly recorded multiple male students in boys’ bathrooms at Freedom High School in Loudoun County, Virginia. The report’s sources allege the student has been filming naked boys under bathroom stalls for three years.  Tania Brown, the school’s principal,

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | April 21, 2026 (IWFeatures) — In January 2022, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) adopted a calendar containing fewer five-day school weeks and more early release days with the explicitly stated goals of “equity and inclusion.” At that time, the 12 Democratic-endorsed school board members also voted to decouple spring break from Easter — a

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora  | April 1, 2026 (IWFeatures) — Last week, Fairfax County police confirmed that a public school student reported she was physically attacked at Centreville High School on March 4. Inside sources have told IW Features that the incident occurred during instructional hours and that the alleged assailant is a black male student. One

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | March 26, 2026 (IWFeatures) — Last week, Fairfax County School Board Chair Sandy Anderson introduced a motion at a regular meeting to appoint Kyle McDaniel, a Democrat-endorsed, at-large member currently embroiled in an embezzlement scandal, as vice chair of the board’s budget committee. The motion passed with a 7-3 vote among its

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | March 2, 2026 (IWFeatures) — It’s no secret that Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is trying to socially engineer its hiring practices to reduce the number of white teachers and administrators with the aim of increasing racial diversity. In a December 2025 report, senior leadership proudly displayed pie charts showing a 20% reduction in

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | February 4, 2026 (IWFeatures) — There rightfully has been a lot of attention paid to radical Virginia Democrats’ day-one blitz as soon as they took back control of the state’s governorship this year. But those of us who live in the deep blue havens that control Virginia politics know that, for our

Ideological Fervor Fuels Costly Litigation Pictured: Activist School Board Member Karl Frisch Stephanie Lundquist-Arora | January 15, 2026 (IWFeatures) — Later this month, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals will weigh in the Department of Education’s designation of Fairfax County, Virginia as a “high risk” district for repeatedly violating Title IX.  Over the summer, the