james sherlock

7 min read 2022-01-13 00:30:47

Government Attacks on Parental Choice in Virtual K-12 Education in Virginia. Chapter 7: Recommendations

by James C. Sherlock Recommendations. Where to begin? First things first. Day one, as Governor-elect Youngkin likes to say… Stop the continued

4 min read 2022-01-12 20:00:13

by James C. Sherlock If parents asked their local schools for a full-time virtual K-12 (FTVK12) option for this school year, they were presented

5 min read 2022-01-12 01:00:46

by James C. Sherlock There was plenty of VDOE-computed “capacity” in Richmond Public Schools (RPS) to accommodate out-of-district students for

4 min read 2022-01-10 03:04:51

James Lane, Superintendent of Public Instruction under Ralph Northam by James C. Sherlock The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) both runs its

3 min read 2022-01-07 21:26:43

Sentara Norfolk General Hospital by James C. Sherlock Sentara Health, once described by The Washington Post as “playing COPN like a violin,”

6 min read 2022-01-04 23:40:47

by James C. Sherlock Virginians are blessed to have a person running the Department of Health Office of Licensure and Inspection (OLC) who may be the

2 min read 2021-12-14 20:58:26

by James C. Sherlock State and local governments are awash in billions of dollars of federal funding with various federal expiration dates if not

4 min read 2021-12-14 05:11:09

by James C. Sherlock I just spent some spare time browsing through the Virginia tax code. (I know, get a life.) Lots of interesting items in there.

3 min read 2021-12-11 02:47:22

by James C. Sherlock James Madison An opinion piece by Catherine Rampell in The Washington Post was headlined, “No one in their right mind would

3 min read 2021-12-01 23:58:35

by James C. Sherlock Americans are at one another’s throats over critical race theory in schools. The debate is skewed and the rage fueled by

1 min read 2021-11-24 05:35:42

by James C. Sherlock There is are a couple of new issues between Virginia’s Bureau of Insurance (BOI) and the federal Centers for Medicare/Medicaid

1 min read 2021-11-22 00:24:17

by James C. Sherlock Lots of people think the schools their kids and grandkids attend are above average — the logical extension of the Lake Wobegon

1 min read 2021-11-20 23:46:44

by James C. Sherlock I have some very good news about public education at the K-12 level. Just not yet in Virginia. But first a baseline of Virginia

1 min read 2021-11-19 00:14:01

by James C. Sherlock Virginia school districts desperately need to find ways to improve public education for poor minority children. The lowest

1 min read 2021-11-18 06:05:38

by James C. Sherlock I wrote a column the other day that exposed gaping fissures in learning among subgroups of children in Loudoun County Public