Tag: Virginia

IN-DEPTH: Most Conservatives Praise Education Savings Accounts, Virginia’s Largest Homeschooling Group Has a Different View

As more states introduce school choice bills and adopt government education savings accounts (ESAs) programs, Virginia’s largest homeschooling organization is weary of government ESA programs because they are sure it will lead to mandates and interference. Home Educators Association of Virginia (HEAV) Director of Support & Government Affairs Yvonne Bunn told The Epoch Times that…


Virginia Mom Turning to Courts After Failing to Secure Harsher Punishment for Son’s Assault

A Virginia mother has decided to take legal action against Fairfax County Public Schools because she believes the district did not take the assault and battery of her son seriously or do enough to keep him safe after he suffered physical and emotional injuries. Taylor Brock’s son, a seventh grader, was assaulted on the school…


Federal Appeals Court Rules on Alleged Racial Balancing School Policy

A federal appeals court handed down a major defeat in the argument against so-called “racial balancing” by schools to create a more ethnically and economically diverse student body this week. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a previous court ruling that an admissions policy adopted by America’s top-ranking public school—Thomas Jefferson High School…


Appeals Court Overturns Ruling Against Elite Virginia High School, Dismisses Racial Discrimination Claims

A federal appeals court has upheld the admissions policies at Virginia’s top public high school, ruling that the school district didn’t discriminate against students of Asian ethnicity by trying to reduce their presence in the student body. The decision, issued Tuesday by a panel of three judges on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals…


West Virginia Election Officials Say Virginia Correct to Exit ERIC Voter Roll System

West Virginia’s top elections official praised Virginia’s decision to exit the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) voter roll maintenance service after Democrats criticized Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin for the move, accusing Republicans of voter suppression. West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner, general counsel Donald “Deak” Kersey, and Chuck Flannery, Warner’s deputy secretary and chief…


Virginia Man Charged in Baseball Bat Attacks on 3 Women, Including Congressional Staffers

FAIRFAX, Va.—A man with untreated schizophrenia, according to his father, was arraigned Tuesday on charges involving baseball-bat attacks on three women, including two staffers for U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly. Xuan-Kha Tran Pham, 49, of Fairfax heard the charges by video hookup from the Fairfax County jail. A judge ordered him held without bond pending a…


Virginia Invests 2.4 Million for State-Wide Active Shooter Trainings

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin recently announced $2.4 million to help train civilians, law enforcement, and emergency personnel to respond most effectively to an active shooter emergency. “This program will build a culture of preparedness by increasing consistent and coordinated first responder training and civilian education,” Youngkin said in a press statement. The Virginia Department of Criminal…


Virginia Joins List of States to Exit Agency Maintaining Voter Registration Rolls

Virginia is the latest state to withdraw from the Democrat-run Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) over a variety of concerns about how the agency handles voter registration rolls. Elections Commissioner Susan Beals sent a letter on May 11 to the executive director of ERIC, Shane Hamlin, to say Virginia would no longer participate in the…


Loudoun County ‘Love Warriors’ Facebook Group Targets Parents From School Board Meetings

Parents in Loudoun County, Virginia, who have spoken out against some school board policies have recently been targeted and allegedly harassed and doxed by a Facebook group that calls itself “The Loudoun Love Warriors” (LLW). One of these parents, Elicia Brand, said the LLW has ties to Antifa, a far-left extremist group, and that the…


[Premiering Now] Asra Nomani on the ‘Unholy Alliance’ Between the Woke Left and the Islamist Right That Is Destabilizing America

“He came to visit a home that I was renting in Karachi, and he went off for an interview. And he never came back. The man whom he was supposed to interview had set a trap for Danny. It was actually a kidnapping scheme. And Danny was never to be seen again.” In 2002, Wall…