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The Republican Standard
- April 13, 2022
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin has appointed McKenzie Snow, a long-time advocate for school choice and top aide of the former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, as Virginia’s deputy secretary of education. She will join state Secretary of Education Aimee Guidera on the governor’s Cabinet, overseeing instruction in Virginia from pre-kindergarten to higher education. Previously, she served as […]

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The Republican Standard
- August 21, 2018
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The Department of Education is now seeing support being gathered for more school choice directives.

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The Republican Standard
- May 3, 2018
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Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to start pulling the federal government out of K-12 education. The move signals a delivery on one of his top campaign promises to return the control of schools back to state and local officials.

Alex Lemieux is a Richmond-based editor with The Republican Standard. ...
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The Republican Standard
- April 21, 2018
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Until we start treating education reform like other federal entitlements, we are never going to get the results our children deserve.

Alex Lemieux is a Richmond-based editor with The Republican Standard. ...
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The Republican Standard
- September 7, 2017
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Betsy DeVos has had an uneven tenure at the Department of Education, sometimes struggling with the demands of a cabinet-level job. Today was not one of those times. In a detailed speech in front of an audience of law students in northern Virginia, DeVos announced that the federal policy on how colleges deal with accusations […]

Writing about society and politics, including the paralyzing effect of bureaucracy – and how to overcome it. ...