Posts from the ‘Education’ category

Which Middle Schools Sent the most students to TJHSST 2013

For the second year in a row, Rachel Carson middle school  will send the most students to TJHSST.   Sixty-four Carson students have been accepted to…

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Fairfax County chooses a new School Superintendent

For the first time FCPS has chosen a woman to lead the largest school system in Virginia with 196 schools and 181,000 students.  Karen Garza comes…

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TJHSST Admission Statistics 2013 for class of 2017

Fairfax county has released the latest admission statistics for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, the class of 2017.  Of the 3, 121 students…

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My Interview With PWCPolitics.com

Thanks to Bill Golden of PWCPolitics.com for having me on his program to discuss the issues of the day impacting Prince William County.

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Virginia, education spending, and budgets

During the great transportation-tax-love-in last month, a slew of Republican delegates and senators lamented that there was “nowhere to cut” in the Virginia budget. I can…

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Where are the Best Schools in the Washington DC area? What is Fairfax county doing that Loudoun and Prince William are not doing?

Which public schools are the best in the DC area?  Looking at SAT scores, Fairfax county comes out on top with a large range (nearly 500…

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Appoint Chris Royse To The PWC School Board

There is an opening on the Prince William County School Board in the Woodbridge Dist. due to the resignation of Denita Ramirez who stepped down on…

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Obama’s Former Budget Director Blames Summer For Making Kids “Dumber and Fatter”

President Obama’s former Budget Director Peter Orszag must be aiming to become the world’s biggest buzzkill.  He penned an op-ed for Bloomberg saying that summer makes…

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Did Charges Of “Scientific Misconduct” Play A Part In Teresa Sullivan’s Dismissal From UVA?

In all the swirling storm and controversy over the dismissal of Teresa Sullivan from UVA, one factor has not been widely discussed.  Did alleged “scientific misconduct”…

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Political Correctness has taken over TJHSST

Over the last few years, the admission office at TJHSST has tried valiantly to make the school the perfect mix of races, and intelligence.  TJ can only admit 450 students…

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Fauquier County Schools Superintendent Should Go.

As budget decision time for the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors nears, I wrote this letter to the Editor of the Fauquier Times Democrat. The focus…

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Northern Virginia 2011 SAT scores

SAT Scores for Arlington (red), Fairfax (blue) and Loudoun (green). TJ 2184 Langley 1819 McLean 1772 Woodson 1750 Madison 1746 Oakton 1733 Yorktown 1724 Marshall 1672…

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Are teachers underpaid?

Not according to two new studies. Every newly elected school board member, and every member of our board of supervisors, should read this article and this…

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Michael Barone Warns Of The Coming Higher Education Bubble Burst

I’ve been telling people this for years and now Michael Barone has picked up on it, too. Here is what I said more than two years…

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Fairfax Democrats choose School Board candidates

Fairfax county democrats have endorsed their candidates for School Board for November. Ilryong Moon, Charisse Espy Glassman and Ted Velkoff will run for the three at…

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No They Couldn’t

From the “Yes We Can!” to “No They Couldn’t…” category: Asbury Park New Jersey’s Barack H. Obama Elementary School is closing due to low academic achievement, declining…

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Do Women Need More assistance?

In 2009 President Obama established a Council on Women and Girls. “The Council’s mission is to provide a coordinated Federal response to the challenges confronted by…

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BREAKING: PWC School Board Names New Middle School For Ronald Reagan

In an effort to find middle ground in the minor skirmish that has erupted over the possibility of the PWC School Board bypassing the naming committee’s…

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PWC School Bd. To Vote On Reagan Elementary Name Tonight

I would urge all of you to please get behind this citizen grassroots effort.  In this the centennial year of Ronald Reagan’s birthday, with celebrations going…

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PWC School Board To Vote On Naming Elementary School After Ronald Reagan THIS WED.!

This Wed., March 2, the Prince William County School Board will be voting on what to name the new elementary school opening Fall 2011 on Linton…

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Donald Trump to Laura Ingraham: “I’m pro-life”

That came on the tail end of a ten-minute interview in which he bashed the Chinese Communist Party and the Education Department (“what do those people…

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