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New ‘Nonpartisan’ Virginia School Board Group Is Actually Led By Prominent Leftists
Last month, a “nonpartisan” Virginia-based group called We the People of Education emerged, claiming to prioritize good governance, financial stewardship, and positive student outcomes versus political agendas and divisiveness when supporting school board candidates. However, despite the group’s neutral-sounding platform, several of the group’s board members have a history of supporting leftist political agendas in Virginia’s public education system. Click HERE to read the full article.
Virginia Supreme Court rules Suffolk school board violated FOIA rules
Government bodies in Virginia cannot ask the public to sit in a separate room and observe their meetings through a video feed only, according to the Supreme Court of Virginia.
In a unanimous opinion released Thursday, the high court concluded the Suffolk City School Board violated the Virginia Freedom of Information Act in the summer of 2021 by telling Deborah Wahlstrom, the education consultant and author who filed the lawsuit, she wasn’t allowed to sit in a school classroom where the board was holding a daylong meeting focused on strategic planning and board training. Click HERE for the full story.
Meet Virginia’s School Board Member Alliance (Part 1 of 2)
Click here for the State of Education interview with Sherri Story and Cheryl Facciani, who are part of the team behind Virginia’s new School Board Member Alliance. Sherri and Cheryl have very different life stories, but they share a common experience—being the dissenting voices on their local school boards. Plus, they love their kids and want to do what they can to create safe educational spaces for the next generation. The SBMA was founded to empower other school board members to do the same. Listen in to learn all the details!