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- November 12, 2022
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REPORT: Financial Aid Offerings Don’t Keep Up With True Higher Ed Costs

Virginia students who graduated from public four-year schools in the 2020-2021 academic year had on average $30,000 in debt, for a total of $357 million in the commonwealth, the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission found in a review of financial aid. “We found that financial aid has not kept pace with rising costs and […]

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The Republican Standard
- January 22, 2019
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‘Numerous Changes’ To Virginia’s Foster Care System Proposed By GOP State Senator

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After last year’s distressing report of Virginia’s foster care system by JLARC, Senator Bryce Reeves’ bill would “address the issues that are critical to the care, custody, and control” of foster care children to have a “direct impact on day one.”

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- September 11, 2018
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JLARC Analysis Finds Democratic Political Bias Within Department Of Elections Under Former Governor McAuliffe

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“If there’s any group that has to have integrity, if there’s any group that has to be nonbiased, it’s got to be this group,” Speaker of the House of Delegates Kirk Cox (R-Colonial Heights) said following the revelation from the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission on the Virginia Department of Elections.

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- October 10, 2017
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BREAKING: JLARC Passes Resolution To Investigate Office of the Attorney General

Democratic AG Mark Herring finds himself on the wrong side of an audit, while Adams continues to run a campaign that could only be termed as heroic.

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