Gov. Bob McDonnell is expected to unveil legislation that would loosen up Virginia’s charter school laws during a news conference this afternoon in Richmond.
The conference is scheduled for 4 p.m., according to a news release from his office.
McDonnell also is expected to propose measures that would shift schools money away from administrative spending to instructional spending.
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make everyone pay for primary education
Want to increase the level of education in Virginia. Stop providing support (welfare, education, free medical etc) to illegal aliens in this state and nations. Make all people living the state who do not pay state income tax, pay for primary school education out of their pockets.
If you are a legal American citizen and a legal state resident and pay state income tax: no cost for your children to go to school. If not, pay an out of state fee for education.
I support the military but in hard fiscal times and declining quality of schools everyone needs to pay up.
let's wait and see
As with any legislation the devil is in the details. I'd like to see an expansion of charter schools and I'm especially curious to see what "shift(ing) schools money away from administrative spending to instructional spending" means. In pricipal, I think school systems' administrative staffing has gotten bloated and would like to see the money applied in the classroom. We spend more per capita than any other country in the world, so money obviously isn't the problem; allocation of it is. I'd love to see a comparison of our system to, say, the German or Japanese system in terms of monetary distribution within them. How are they getting, based on test scores, at least, more bang for their buck? I'm a strong supporter of public schools and only want them to get better.