All Entries in the "Schools and Education" Category
Introducing IMPACT™: I’m Paying Additional County/City/Commonwealth Taxes
IMPACT is a resource for the terminally undertaxed. It provides an opportunity for citizens to pay additional taxes.
WHY IMPACT?
In these difficult economic times, local and state governments are not receiving the significant increases in revenues to which they have become accustomed. While many support raising taxes on everyone to continue tax [...]
Deeds speaks! Breaks silence on Bell’s “Composite Index” budget amendment
At the behest of the Albemarle County School Board, Delegate Rob Bell (R-57) has proposed amending Virginia’s state budget in order to better reflect the annual wealth transfer from Albemarle County to Charlottesville City under the region’s Revenue Sharing Agreement. Currently, in assessing financial need of the localities, Virginia sees Albemarle County Government as $18 [...]
If at first you don’t deceive, lie, lie again: Charlottesville City spokesman denies, then admits hiring lobbyist
Much as been made by Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris and his downtown cronies regarding a commitment to open and transparent government—but actions speak louder than words and the road to City Hall transparency is paved with good intentions.
Recently local media reported that Charlottesville had hired a lobbyist to defeat Del. Rob Bell’s proposed state budget [...]
Breaking news: Albemarle County schools to take $7M hit?
Governor Bob McDonnell has reversed a budget decision by predecessor Tim Kaine, which could leave a gap of up to $7 million in Albemarle County Public Schools’ upcoming budget.
Kaine, as a cost-saving measure, decided to freeze implementation of biennial changes to Virginia’s composite index, a move that “saved” state government approximately $29 million dollars but [...]
iPods and laptops and junkets, oh my! Local schools swimming in cash
In the midst of another budget season, weekly we endure administrators, school board members, teachers, students, and parents complaining about unfathomable shortfalls in local school divisions.
Loose-spending elected officials in Charlottesville, Albemarle, and surrounding counties “cry wolf” each budget cycle, claiming scarcity of “resources” to properly educate (i.e. indoctrinate) our children and to perform myriad other [...]
Guest Editorial: Do you know what the schools are asking your kids?
Do you know what the schools are asking your kids?
by Donna Douma
I have a very strong and open relationship with my children, but even I missed what exactly is going on in our schools with regard to surveys.
I don’t believe that parents have been adequately informed about surveys our children are being asked to answer. [...]
Charlottesville High School “celebrates” Islam
America, “land of the free,” as we know it, is now on the path to ideological and physical destruction, thanks in part to “enlightened” government schools like Charlottesville High School, where “Coexist” is the new-school “mantra” and students are subjected daily to cultural moral-equivalency indoctrination.
Initially advanced as “Muslim Celebration Day” (displayed as such on the CHS [...]
Albemarle County Schools hyping flu epidemic; distribute deceptive letter
After ending last year mired in national controversy, Albemarle County Schools may have begun this academic year on equally rocky footing.
Last week, the division issued information packets to parents during the annual back-to-school “open house” event. The assortment of documents contained usual and predictable items: general school information, emergency forms, etc. But, in addition to [...]
Dumpster diving, the sequel: Not a shred of evidence at Albemarle High School
Recently, we reviewed the saga of highly personal and potentially inflammatory Albemarle High School student journals being disposed of openly in a school dumpster.
This blatant breach of student privacy prompted many still unanswered questions:
Does Albemarle County have a privacy policy regarding student writings?
Was there a policy breach in the disposal of these journals?
Has there been [...]
The Schilling Show featured in The Hook
Thanks to writer Lindsay Barnes and editor Hawes Spencer for publishing an excellent cover story on Rob Schilling, and his radio program, The Schilling Show, in the June 25, 2009 edition of The Hook. (Also, kudos to photographer Tom Daly for his professional contribution.)
The multi-page narrative chronicles Rob’s pre-political life in California, his subsequent move [...]
