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Vanessa Hall
Jan 31, 20244 min read
Honoring a Civil Rights Leader by Doing the Work
School Board Matters, January 25, 2024 meeting School Board meetings are ground zero for the culture wars. Our “School Board Matters”...
Vanessa Hall
Jan 17, 20244 min read
Fairfax's School Board Gets Right to Work with Great Ideas!
School Board Matters, January 11, 2024 meeting School Board meetings are ground zero for the culture wars. Our “School Board Matters”...
Vanessa Hall
Dec 20, 20232 min read
Anniversary of an Expensive Manufactured Crisis
If you care about public education, then you have noticed that school districts across the country have been under fire for the last...
Vanessa Hall
Dec 19, 20233 min read
School Board Matters: Honoring Outgoing School Board Members
December 14, 2023 School Board meetings have become ground zero for the culture wars. Our “School Board Matters” blog will include...
Vanessa Hall
Dec 14, 20235 min read
School Board Matters: Conflict on the Dais
December 4, 2023 School Board meetings have become ground zero for the culture wars. Our “School Board Matters” blog will include...
Vanessa Hall
Dec 14, 20234 min read
Parents Feel Doubly Violated by a Privacy Breach
Like tens of thousands of parents, I received a letter this week indicating that FCPS inadvertently released my child’s private...
Vanessa Hall
Nov 15, 20238 min read
School Board Matters: Blue Skies and Smiles Shining So Bright
November 9, 2023 School Board meetings have become ground zero for the culture wars, so 4 Public Education is introducing a new blog...
Holly Hazard
Nov 8, 20232 min read
Tuesday’s Elections Send Message: Parents Want Robust Libraries, Inclusiveness, Truthful History
Pundits cast Virginia’s Tuesday general elections as a referendum on abortion rights. It was more than that. Further down the ballot...
Marianne Burke (PhD) and Vanessa Hall
Oct 30, 20234 min read
Op-ed: Northern Virginia in the Crosshairs
Even before he was elected, Virginia Gov. [Glenn] Youngkin focused his attention on harmful, fabricated fibs about public education. He...
Vanessa Hall
Oct 27, 20237 min read
Education Apocalypse
Imagine a world where the Moms for Liberty and like-minded individuals were elected to the school board, state legislature, and...
Marianne Burke, PhD
Oct 27, 20232 min read
Voters Agree that Public Education is on the Ballot
A recent poll by the Washington Post and George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government revealed factors that may...
Vanessa Hall
Oct 20, 20235 min read
School Board Matters: FCPS Outcompetes on SATs
School Board meetings have become ground zero for the culture wars, so 4 Public Education is introducing a new blog called “School Board...
Marianne Burke, PhD
Oct 12, 20232 min read
School Board to Vote on Renaming Woodson Tonight!
On October 10, 2023, 4 Public Education co-founder Vanessa Hall spoke at a hearing in support of the proposal to rename W. T. Woodson...
Vanessa Hall
Oct 5, 20233 min read
School Board Matters: A Focus on Literacy by Third Grade!
School Board meetings have become ground zero for the culture wars, so 4 Public Education is introducing a new blog called “School Board...
4PE Team
Sep 28, 20232 min read
Voting for the School Board 101
You may know that early voting began on Friday, September 22, 2023. To help you navigate school board election season in Virginia, 4...
Vanessa Hall
Sep 26, 20231 min read
Get Involved in Renaming Woodson High School
After more than 60 years of being named for an active promoter of Massive Resistance to desegregation and FCPS's second longest FCPS...
Vanessa Hall
Sep 17, 20235 min read
School Board Matters: Student Activism is Front and Center
School Board meetings have become ground zero for the culture wars, so 4 Public Education is introducing a new blog called “School Board...
Vanessa Hall
Sep 14, 20232 min read
Safety and Inclusion Are Key to Success
Respect Student Voices My heart broke listening to adults demonizing and dehumanizing students at the last school board meeting demonize...
Marianne Burke, PhD
Sep 14, 20232 min read
Don't Be Fooled into Thinking that FCPS is Failing
All these school board seats are up for election this November, and you can tell things are heating up because false claims are...
Vanessa Hall
Sep 6, 20233 min read
School Board Matters: Call for Advisory Committee Volunteers
School Board meetings have become ground zero for the culture wars, so 4 Public Education is introducing a new blog covering Fairfax...
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