Fairfax County School Board held a hearing to discuss a proposed budget of $4 billion for the next school year. Community members expressed strong opinions on both sides.
The U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, opened an investigation last week into Fairfax County Public Schools and four other Virginia School Systems to determine if their transgender policy violates Title IX of Education Amendments of 1973 -- the federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex for education programs receiving federal funding. An administrative complaint was filed by the America First Legal Foundation on February 3.
Virginia’s five most corrupt school districts are now the subject of a formal complaint at the U.S. Department of Education because of their gender ideology policies.
Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted 9-1 in August to purchase a former hotel as a possible homeless shelter, despite Springfield district supervisor Pat Herrity's concern about the fiscal implications of the decision and the lack of input from the public.
Mark Spooner, a 79-year-old retired attorney in Fairfax County, unearthed startling documents through a public records request, detailing the price tag for salaries of 52 employees in the "Chief Equity Office" of Fairfax County Public Schools: $6.4 million, or enough to pay about 125 new teachers.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is clear: He will veto any legislation that removes the state's exemption for religious reasons from schooling. This law absolves parents who claim to be religiously against education of having to prove they educate their children at home.
The Chief Equity Office is headed by a Chief Equity Officer (salary: $258,641). She directly supervises an Executive Director for Equity & Student Relations ($191,634), a Chief Administrative Hearings Officer ($189,569), and a Thomas Jefferson High School Admissions Director ($122,717).
This month, Virginia State Sen. Stella Pekarsky, D-Fairfax, introduced a bill to the Virginia Senate to restrict families’ access to homeschool options.
Financial records show that public school teachers and other professionals in education who are more concerned with their profession than politics get a poor return from their union dues.
Since February 1, the Reston developer has spent $271,128 more on lobbying and political contributions. Comstock has spent a total of $1.519.121 so far, according to the financial reports filed with the state.
“I think absolutely I would be a boost to that ticket,” said Herrity. “I’m a known quantity in Northern Virginia and in Fairfax County, specifically. I think I [would] help the ticket across the finish line.
Fairfax County School Board held a hearing to discuss a proposed budget of $4 billion for the next school year. Community members expressed strong opinions on both sides.
The U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, opened an investigation last week into Fairfax County Public Schools and four other Virginia School Systems to determine if their transgender policy violates Title IX of Education Amendments of 1973 -- the federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex for education programs receiving federal funding. An administrative complaint was filed by the America First Legal Foundation on February 3.
In an outrageous, offensive and tone-deaf post, Juli Briskman, Loudoun County Supervisor has equated the removal of violent, crime committing illegal aliens to the atrocities perpetrated on law abiding Jewish citizens during Kristallnacht (1938) in Nazi Germany and the deportation of Jews from Nazi occupied countries to death camps.
