As the 2024 General Assembly draws to a close, the drama over the budget continues to ramp up. Much of the discussion about the budget...

Improving support for K-12 public education to help students thrive is a widely shared goal. Students across Virginia deserve funding...

Budget Amendments are a Critical Part of the Legislative Process Things are certainly heating up in the General Assembly! Not only are...

Black history is American history. Our schools should integrate Black, Asian, Hispanic, and queer history throughout our history books...

February 13th, Crossover Day, is the “halftime” of the General Assembly. This is the deadline for bills to be passed in each chamber so...

The pace has picked up in Virginia’s General Assembly as we approach some key deadlines.  ‘Crossover’  is February 13, the deadline by...

A Call to Advocacy for SB21 and HB509 I am a parent of a dyslexic student. When it became clear in first grade that our daughter could...

February 3rd will end the third week of the 2024 Session of Virginia’s General Assembly. At the time of this writing, one priority...

Last year, public education advocates were unsuccessful at getting the 2023 priority education bills passed in the General Assembly. ...

Choosing a Reading Curriculum that Works In 2022 the Virginia legislature passed The Virginia Literacy Act, often referred to as VLA. It...

The Board of 4 Public Education is disappointed with the proposed budget released by Governor Youngkin on December 20, 2023. It seems...

Pundits cast Virginia’s Tuesday general elections as a referendum on abortion rights. It was more than that. Further down the ballot...

Even before he was elected, Virginia Gov. [Glenn] Youngkin focused his attention on harmful, fabricated fibs about public education. He...

Imagine a world where the Moms for Liberty and like-minded individuals were elected to the school board, state legislature, and...

A recent poll by the Washington Post and George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government revealed factors that may...

The General Assembly reconvenes in Richmond on April 12th to address unfinished legislative business. There are three major items on the...

The 2023 General Assembly adjourned on Saturday, February 25th. During this session, things played out as predicted for a divided...

After the General Assembly adjourns on February 25, 2023, all bills that pass both chambers will go to the Governor for his signature or...

At this the first full week after Crossover, only five of our original 29 priority bills remain active. We oppose three of those bills...

Tuesday, February 7, 2023 is the Crossover deadline in Richmond for the 2023 General Assembly. Advocacy by the public has been successful.