Category: equal outcome

Virginia AG Demands Fairfax County Middle School Stop Racial Discrimination Against Students

March 10, 2023
DelayEducation & Family Newsequal outcomeequityFairfax County Public SchoolsGlenn YoungkinJason Miyaresracial discriminationUS
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FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.—Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares sent a letter Thursday to a Fairfax County middle school demanding the school stop discriminating against potential 8th-grade applicants for its college preparation program. On March 1, Cooper Middle School sent an email inviting parents of 8th graders to apply for the public school system’s College Partnership Program…

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‘Unacceptable’: Youngkin Outraged Over Delays in Notifying Student Recipients of Their National Merit Award

January 17, 2023
Education & Family Newsequal outcomeFairfax County Public SchoolsGlenn YoungkinLocal NewsRegional-Local NewsUSUS News
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FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.—Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin was outraged over delays by high schools in notifying “commended” students of their National Merit Award, as four more schools reported the same issue on Friday, increasing the school count in Fairfax County to seven in total. “What started off as allegations of one of our most prominent schools…

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Virginia Parents Demand Accountability Over Delayed National Merit Award Notifications

January 11, 2023
Education & Family Newsequal outcomeFairfax CountyLoudoun County Public SchoolsUS
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MCLEAN, Va.—Fairfax County parents demanded accountability and transparency on Tuesday at a meeting with the division superintendent regarding delayed award notifications at Langley High School, ranked No. 2 in the Commonwealth. Many of them saw the delay not as a one-time human error, as stated by the school system, but as a component in the…

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There Isn’t Fairness in Equality

April 12, 2022
AustraliaBarack Obamaequal opportunityequal outcomeInequalityOpinionViewpointsWorld
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Commentary Barack Obama called it “the defining issue of our time.” The widely quoted but rarely read author of “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” Thomas Piketty, called it a threat to democracy. And the Australian Council of Social Services fears it is getting much worse. What is this scourge? Is it the war raging in Europe,…

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