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Sunday News: “Egypt Pitches New Proposal for Gaza Cease-Fire”; At WHCD, Biden Implores Media to “rise up to the seriousness of the moment”; “Trump’s Sleepy, Sleazy Criminal Trial”; Youngkin “could have little to show for his four years as governor”

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by Lowell

Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, April 28. Also check out President Joe Biden’s White House Correspondents Dinner speech, at which he said:

“On the third anniversary of January 6th, I went to Valley Forge, and I said, ‘The most urgent question of our time is whether democracy is still — is still the sacred cause of America.’ That is the question the American people must answer this year. And you, the free press, play a critical role in making sure the American people have the information they need to make an informed decision. A defeated former president has made no secret of his attack on our democracy. He said he wants to be a dictator on Day One and so much more. He tells supporters he is their revenge and retribution. When in God’s name you ever heard another president say something like that? And he promised a bloodbath when he loses again. We have to take this seriously. Eight years ago, you could have written off it as just Trump talk, but no longer, not after January 6th. I’m sincerely not asking you to take sides, but I’m asking you to rise up to the seriousness of the moment. Move past the horse race numbers and the gotcha moments and the distractions, the sideshows that have come to dominate and sensationalize our politics and focus on what’s actually at stake. And I think in your hearts you know what’s at stake. The stakes couldn’t be higher. Every single one of us has roles to play, a serious role to play in making sure democracy endures — American democracy. I know my role, but all due respect, so do you. In the age of disinformation, credible information that people can trust is more important than ever, and that makes you — and I mean this from the bottom of my heart — makes you more important than ever. So tonight, I’d like to make a toast. To a free press. To an informed citizenry. To an America where freedom and democracy endure. God bless America.”

Video: Delegates Mark Sickles, Rodney Willett, and Kannan Srinivasan Join Advocates and Protect Our Care Virginia to Celebrate Sixth Anniversary of Medicaid Expansion and Its Impact on Rural Virginia

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From Protect Our Care:

Delegates Sickles, Willett, and Srinivasan Join Advocates and Protect Our Care Virginia to Celebrate Sixth Anniversary of Medicaid Expansion and Its Impact on Rural Virginia

Democratic Legislators Will Protect Medicaid Funding in Ongoing State Budget Negotiations

Medicaid Faces Existential Threat if Affordable Care Act is Repealed, as 700,000 Virginians Have Enrolled in Coverage Since Expansion

*Watch the event HERE*
RICHMOND, Va.  – House Health and Human Services Chair Mark Sickles (D-Fairfax), Chair of the Select Committee on Advancing Rural and Small Town Health Care Rodney Willett (D-Henrico) and former Chair of the State Board of Medical Assistance Services Delegate Kannan Srinivasan (D-Loudoun) on Friday joined advocates, storytellers, and Protect Our Care Virginia for a virtual press conference celebrating the sixth anniversary of Medicaid expansion and the seventh annual Medicaid Awareness Month.

More than 2 million people across the entire Commonwealth are served by the program, including 700,000 who enrolled thanks to Virginia’s decision to expand Medicaid in 2018. Recent policy wins have further extended Medicaid services to include dental care, postpartum care, and behavioral health services. 

“There are very few programs that have the impact on people’s lives that Medicaid has,” said Chairman Sickles, who helped lead negotiation efforts to pass expansion in 2018. “And that’s why in my role as the Chair of the Health Human Services Committee and also on Appropriations, I have fought to move this forward and not backwards, and realize that it’s a long term proposition that we need to make progress on every single year.”

Speakers discussed the impact of Medicaid on rural communities, particularly as the Select Committee on Advancing Rural and Small Town Health Care prepares to commence its work next week. At the beginning of the legislative session, Delegate Willett was appointed by Speaker Don Scott to chair the special bipartisan committee that is tasked with proposing five actionable legislative recommendations to address unmet health care needs in rural Virginia. Chairman Sickles and Delegate Srinivasan also serve on the committee, which kicks off its work by touring health facilities in Tazewell April 29, followed by an 11 a.m. public meeting on April 30 at Southwest Virginia Community College in Cedar Bluff.

Speaking to how to best address disparities in rural health care, Chairman Willett said, “Medicaid is absolutely part of the equation, and something that we need to continue to look at. Forty-five percent of the health coverage in small towns and rural areas comes from Medicaid right now. It’s a huge percentage of folks being cared for by that. Medicaid is helping to close this health care disparity gap that we have. Medicaid expansion cut the uninsured rates in those areas by more than fifty percent.”

“Virginia is one of the best-run Medicaid programs in the country,” said Delegate Srinivasan. “The Medicaid program saved so many lives in Virginia, and made a considerable change in people’s lives, particularly in rural Virginia. As a former chair, I can vouch for you the amount of care and the diligence and the professionalism that goes on in the Medicaid staff to bring the best quality health care for Virginians. Not only is Virginia one of the best-run Medicaid programs nationally, our admin cost is less than two percent. Just think about that for a second less than two percent. And they’ve been consistent for many, many years of spending very little on admin costs, which means almost 98 cents per dollar goes to patient care.”

Jill Hanken, retired health policy attorney from the Virginia Poverty Law Center, reflected on the work that a coalition of advocates put into passing Medicaid expansion, including The Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis and the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, among many others.

“In Virginia, it took us five full years of advocacy and lobbying to bring about expansion; it was an effort that involved many, many advocates working together in our coalition that we called the Healthcare for All Virginians Coalition to bring this about,” said Hanken. “We worked really hard to educate legislators about Medicaid and about what expansion would mean for the state. We published lots of materials to focus on the stories of adults who fell into a Medicaid gap because they were too poor to get coverage through the Affordable Care Act, but had too much money to qualify for the current Medicaid program … the success [of expansion] has been unbelievable. The enrollment exceeded all of our expectations.”

Leslie Mehta, a resident of Chesterfield County who is the mom to a child diagnosed with Rett Syndrome, shared the importance of Medicaid to her family.

“My husband and I had private insurance, but Medicaid became a lifeline support as a supplement. Because of Medicaid, we were able to have our daughter be in private daycare. Her first daycare told her that they didn’t have the resources to be able to help her and support her and adequately care for her. Once we were approved for Medicaid, Medicaid allowed for us to have individualized attendants and individualized attendant care that stayed with her throughout her daycare day.”

Mehta added that while private insurance did not cover her daughter’s Eyegaze device, which empowered her to communicate, Medicaid did.

“It was because of Medicaid that I got to hear for the first time, ‘I love you mommy.’ We were able to go to the park because Medicaid was there to help supplement and provide a specialized stroller for her. Medicaid made all of this and more possible. Medicaid has been a lifeline of support for our family, and I think it’s necessary for families across the Commonwealth for those who like myself and my family need to bridge the gap in health care services that private insurance just isn’t covering for their disabled child.”

Speakers also discussed the efforts of President Biden and Democrats in both Congress and Richmond to strengthen and protect Medicaid, including through ongoing state budget negotiations. The bipartisan budget passed by the General Assembly and blocked by Governor Youngkin makes significant improvements to Virginia’s Medicaid program. The governor now has a renewed opportunity to work with the General Assembly to agree to a budget that maintains the robust investments in Medicaid that were originally sent to his desk.

“We’re going to increase Medicaid rates in this budget, we’re going to oppose the governor’s plan to cut our increase in nursing home care in half, and we’re going to pay our personal care attendants what they deserve,” said Chairman Sickles. “We’ve set aside money for the technology part as well because we’ve been through the Medicaid unwinding. We had over two million Virginians on Medicaid, and we’re addressing every single one of them to see if they’re still eligible.”

Finally, Protect Our Care Virginia State Director Katie Baker said, “as we celebrate Medicaid Awareness Month, we also must be watchful of the continuing threats to Medicaid, especially if Donald Trump gets his way and the Affordable Care Act is repealed. We are thankful for the health care champions on this call as well as for the tenacity of President Biden and Democrats in Congress who are committed to protecting it for the millions of Americans who rely on it.”

You can watch the full event HERE, and learn more about Medicaid’s impact on rural communities HERE.

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Protect Our Care is dedicated to making high-quality, affordable and equitable health care a right, and not a privilege, for everyone in America. We educate the public, influence policy, support health care champions and hold politicians accountable. We fight to expand access to affordable, high-quality health insurance, lower the cost of health care for individuals and families, and reduce inequities in health care based on gender, income, race, ethnicity, geography, or sexual preference.

Glenn Youngkin “Inspired” by Liberty “University” – Yep, the Far-Right School, Founded by Trump-Loving Jerry Falwell (of “Pool Boy” Infamy), Which “threatened to punish students who reported being raped”

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Glenn Youngkin is “inspired” by Liberty “University?” Seriously?!?  So…see below for some examples of what Liberty “University” stands for – and what Youngkin’s apparently “inspired” by. And yes, anyone who ever though Youngkin was some sort of “moderate” or “normie Republican” or whatever is a friggin’ moron.

Saturday News: “The Trumpification of the Supreme Court”; President Joe Biden’s Interview with Howard Stern; Kristi Noem – The Psychopath Who Youngkin Campaigned For! – “Defends Killing Her Dog”; After Leaving Governor’s Race, “Stoney calls Spanberger ‘very formidable candidate'”

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by Lowell

Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, April 27.

NY Times Article by Former Editor of Nuclear Intelligence Weekly Argues We Should Be Focusing on Solar and Wind, Not Super-Expensive Nuclear Power (Let Alone “Small Modular Reactors” – SMRs – Which Are Speculative Technologically and Extremely Expensive)

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Glenn Youngkin isn’t a stupid person, presumably – although sometimes one has to wonder, given all the inexplicably stupid things he says and does! And yet the number of things Youngkin apparently doesn’t understand is large – on a wide variety of topics.

Why is this the case? Part of it is presumably ignorance of specific topics, given his lack of prior experience in any form of government, public policy, etc., as well an apparently serious case of Dunning-Kruger (or maybe just arrogance? laziness? other?). But part of it, presumably, is “motivated reasoning,” in which “Individuals tend to favor evidence that coincides with their current beliefs and reject new information that contradicts them, despite contrary evidence.” Of course, Youngkin could also be biased due to his own personal interests – political, financial/economic, whatever. Perhaps that helps explain how someone who, at the Carlyle Group, sounded like a relatively pragmatic “moderate” even praising diversity, ESG, “lowering carbon footprint,” etc. – suddenly morphed into a Trump-loving, MAGA-cultist, right-wing ideologue?

Oh, and in addition to lurching hard right, Youngkin’s also appears to have become unenthusiastic about, or even hostile towards, clean energy and climate action. We’ve seen it since the earliest days of Youngkin’s administration, in his appointment of Trump’s coal-industry-lobbyist EPA administrator, Andrew Wheeler (and in Youngkin’s/Wheeler’s godawful “Virginia Energy Plan”), as one of his top energy advisors; in his blather about an “all-of-the-above” energy policy approach, including fossil fuels like natural gas; in his opposition to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, etc.

Then we’ve got Youngkin’s enthusiasm for super-expensive “small modular nuclear reactors” (SMRs), while showing far less enthusiasm for FAR-less-expensive and already proven clean energy technologies like solar, wind, and of course energy efficiency. Regarding SMRs, an analysis last July in RenewEconomy explained that: “Very few of the proposed SMRs have been demonstrated and none are commercially available”; “cost estimates for the reactor have risen from US$55/megawatt electric (MWe) in 2016 to $89/MWe in 2023”; “two French-design evolutionary power reactor (EPR) builds have been far over budget and schedule”; “commercial-scale SMRs are likely decades away, if they are at all viable”; etc.

Unfortunately, Virginia legislators appear not to have fully absorbed that analysis, as they went ahead and passed legislation “that would allow the state’s two biggest electric utility companies to request ratepayer funds to cover costs of early development for small modular nuclear reactors.” That was a big mistake, for all the reasons noted in the RenewEconomy piece. Now, a new NY Times article, entitled “The Fantasy of Reviving Nuclear Energy,”  yet again demolishes the delusion that SMRs (or really any new nuclear power plants) will ever be as inexpensive, easy to build, or even FEASIBLE to build, as existing clean energy sources – solar, wind, etc. And no, this piece was not written by someone who’s reflexively anti-nuclear-power (I’m not either, by the way), but by Stephanie Cooke, a former editor of Nuclear Intelligence Weekly – also a former reporter for ” Nucleonics Week, NuclearFuel and Inside N.R.C.” In short, Cooke knows what she’s talking about (unlike Glenn Youngkin and many others pushing for SMRs) and isn’t coming at this from some sort of reflexive or left-wing anti-nuclear position. A few key points by Cooke in her NY Times article include:

  • “Solar and wind power together began outperforming nuclear power globally in 2021, and that trend continues as nuclear staggers along. Solar alone added more than 400 gigawatts of capacity worldwide last year, two-thirds more than the previous year. That’s more than the roughly 375 gigawatts of combined capacity of the world’s 415 nuclear reactors, which remained relatively unchanged last year.”
  • “…pledging to triple nuclear capacity by 2050 is a little like promising to win the lottery…the cost of building 200 gigawatts of new [nuclear power] capacity [in the US] would be…at least $4 trillion, or $6 trillion if you count the additional cost of replacing existing reactors as they age out.”
  • “For much less money and in less time, the world could reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the use of renewables like solar, wind, hydropower and geothermal power and by transmitting, storing and using electricity more efficiently.”
  • “The U.S. government is already poised to spend billions of dollars building small modular and advanced reactors and keeping aging large ones running. But two such small reactor projects based on conventional technologies have already failed.”
  • “There is already enough potential generation capacity in the United States seeking access to the grid to come close to achieving President Biden’s 2035 goal of a zero-carbon electricity sector, and 95 percent of it is solar, battery storage and wind. But these projects face a hugely constrained transmission system, regulatory and financial roadblocks and entrenched utility interests” (which need to be overcome).

The bottom line is that SMRs are highly expensive and unproven/technologically speculative, while existing clean energy sources – solar, wind, energy efficiency, etc. – are cheap, abundant, and growing by leaps and bounds. Which one would YOU rather invest in, let alone have Virginia ratepayers’ money invested in? Seems like a no-brainer, right? Well, yeah…except not, apparently, to Glenn Youngkin and other SMR fans. Ugh.

 

Biden Campaign: “Another tortured week for the smallest man who ever lived, Donald Trump.”

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From President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign:

Donald Trump, the Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

Hello,

Another tortured week for the smallest man who ever lived, Donald Trump.

While President Biden spent the week taking his message to Florida!!! (the Taylor Swift references stop here folks) voters on the six-week abortion ban unleashed by Trump, receiving a key endorsement from building trades unions, and putting out more ads in battleground states.

On the other hand, a tired and “diminished” Trump created a chaotic mess for himself and his campaign:

Let’s recap:

This week, Trump…

  1. Read that his own advisors believed he is “appearing diminished”
  2. Did not campaign, but did go golfing
  3. Saw men and women of the building trades endorse President Biden and call him out as “one of the worst clients we ever had”
  4. Continued to lag behind Joe Biden with small donors
  5. Had the Proud Boys attend his canceled rally in North Carolina
  6. Is tied at the hip with toxic Project 2025 project
  7. Claimed overturning Roe is ‘working out well for people’
  8. Lost over 157,000 votes in Pennsylvania to Nikki Haley, 48 days after Haley dropped out – underscoring his continued weakness with suburban voters across the country
  9. His campaign openly admitted “We haven’t run anything. We haven’t done anything” in Pennsylvania, and they still have little battleground state infrastructure
  10. Voters were reminded he hates the NFL during the NFL draft
  11. His campaign put out a ridiculous quadruple spaced memo
  12. Complained about being chilly
  13. One of his most senior campaign advisors wasted time quote tweeting Biden staffers instead of actually running a campaign – while his other focused on having herself billed as a “mastermind” of Trump’s campaign. Hmmmm….
  14. Minimized Charlottesville riots where a woman died and neo-Nazi’s chanted “Jews will not replace us”

The following is a statement from Biden-Harris 2024 Spokesperson James Singer:

“It is an indictment on Trump that he won’t campaign, can’t message, and is driving voters away. His campaign advisors are distracted, his campaign is losing time, and it is burning money on everything but actually reaching voters. Keep it up, Donald.”

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State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi, Del. Cia Price: Youngkin Playing Games With Virginia’s Right to Contraception Act

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From State Senator Ghazala Hashmi and Delegate Cia Price:

General Assembly’s Reproductive Justice Leaders Call Out Youngkin for Playing Games With Virginia’s Right to Contraception Act

Senator Ghazala Hashmi and Delegate Marcia “Cia” Price Send Clear Message to Youngkin: Stop Playing With Our Rights

RICHMOND, Va. – Senator Ghazala Hashmi (D-Chesterfield) and Delegate Marcia “Cia” Price today sent a united message in response to Governor Youngkin’s evasive statement to reporters this week that there are “other things I can do” aside from vetoing or signing Virginia’s Right to Contraception Act: stop playing with our rights.

Democrats in the General Assembly refused to entertain the governor’s proposed substitute to the bill during their April 17 reconvene session and sent it back to his desk in its original form. Youngkin’s proposal would have gutted the legislation by deleting the definition of contraception – including explicit protections for IUDs and emergency contraceptives – and removing its enforcement mechanism.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch previously reported that a legal historian at the Georgia State University School of Law “added that [Youngkin’s proposed substitute] … may also be a nod to people who see some forms of contraception as akin to abortion.”

The General Assembly sent the original bill back to the governor, who has until May 17 to sign the bill, veto the bill, or do nothing in which case it will become law. He can no longer amend the bill.

Bill patrons Senator Hashmi and Delegate Price issued the following joint statement in response to the governor’s comments:

“Governor Youngkin continues to live under the delusion that he can play both sides of this issue because he doesn’t want to anger the loud extremists in his party who equate contraception to abortion or anger the 81% of voters who support this simple and essential bill. He is not only playing games with voters but also with our health care. Contraception is not only used for family planning, but to also manage a wide variety of health conditions. Bans on contraception would hurt everyone, including people of color, people with low incomes, and LGBTQ people. Contraception cannot be played with: this bill is a matter of reproductive justice. It is time for Governor Youngkin to stop playing games and just sign the bill.”

Friday News: “US preparing to announce $6B in weapons contracts for Ukraine”; All Illusions Shattered – “Shameful Performance” by Far-Right-Extremist SCOTUS Justices; “The Constitution Won’t Save Us From Trump”; “No more ‘Mason’ or ‘GMU’: George Mason University reveals new logo, branding”

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by Lowell

Here are a few international, national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, April 26.

Video: Donald Trump, Disgusting and Warped as Always, Calls August 2017 Neo-Nazi March in Charlottesville “a little peanut,” “nothing”

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Donald Trump is a sick, warped individual – and he keeps hitting new lows of depravity, racism, you name it. And yet, despite how evil Trump is, he’s actually been *endorsed* for president (!!!) by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, AG Jason Miyares, Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA02), VA House GOP Leader Todd Gilbert, the Republican Party of Virginia, etc. Do they all stand by these latest, outrageous comments by Trump, in this case about the white supremacist/neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville in August 2017? The one that led to the death of Heather Heyer, as well as Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen and Trooper-Pilot Berke M.M. Bates?

Virginia Board of Education Announces 2023-2024 Exemplar Performance School Awards

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Keep in mind that Youngkin’s appointees dominate this Board of Education, so…take this with a grain of salt?  With that in mind, congratulations to all these schols on their awards!

Virginia Board of Education
Announces 2023-2024 Exemplar
Performance School Awards

RICHMOND – The Virginia Board of Education today recognized 64 schools for their high achievement and continued improvement as part of its Exemplar Performance School Recognition Program.

The Exemplar School Recognition Program and its Exemplar Performance Awards recognizes schools that exceed board-established performance requirements or show continuous improvement on academic and school quality indicators. Thirty-seven schools earned the Board of Education Highest Achievement Award, and 27 schools earned the Board of Education Continuous Improvement Award. The awards are based on performance and practices during the 2022-2023 and prior school years.

“On behalf of the Virginia Board of Education, I am thrilled to celebrate and honor the 64 schools who are being recognized for their accomplishments,” said Board of Education President Grace Turner Creasey. “Recognition in this program is one of the highest achievements a school can receive in the Commonwealth. Congratulations to the staff, students, and communities who support these remarkable schools for their success.”

“I am pleased to recognize and congratulate the 37 schools that earned the Highest Achievement Award and the 27 schools that have earned the Continuous Improvement Award,” said Superintendent of Public Instruction Lisa Coons. “When high expectations are set and our schools achieve them, they deserve to be celebrated. This recognition is a testament to the hard work and tireless efforts the educators and staff, students, families, and communities are making every single day. They should be very proud of all that they have achieved.”

2023-2024 Board of Education Highest Achievement Award

The 37 schools earning the 2023-2024 Board of Education Highest Achievement Award are:

Division Name

School Name

Albemarle County

Community Lab School

Albemarle County

Ivy Elementary

Albemarle County

Virginia L. Murray Elementary

Arlington County

Arlington Traditional

Bedford County

Forest Elementary

Botetourt County

Breckinridge Elementary

Botetourt County

Buchanan Elementary

Botetourt County

Eagle Rock Elementary

Carroll County

Gladesboro Elementary

Danville City

Galileo Magnet High

Fairfax County

Sangster Elementary

Fairfax County

Thomas Jefferson High for Science and Technology

Fauquier County

Kettle Run High

Fauquier County

P.B. Smith Elementary

Grayson County

Fairview Elementary

Lee County

St. Charles Elementary

Loudoun County

Aldie Elementary

Loudoun County

Emerick Elementary

Loudoun County

Hamilton Elementary

Loudoun County

Hillsboro Charter Academy

Loudoun County

Waterford Elementary

Montgomery County

Harding Avenue Elementary

Patrick County

Woolwine Elementary

Pittsylvania County

Stony Mill Elementary

Richmond City

Mary Munford Elementary

Roanoke City

Crystal Spring Elementary

Roanoke County

Mason’s Cove Elementary

Southampton County

Nottoway Elementary

Virginia Beach City

Green Run Collegiate

Virginia Beach City

Kingston Elementary

Virginia Beach City

North Landing Elementary

Virginia Beach City

Old Donation School

Virginia Beach City

Rosemont Forest Elementary

Wise County

J.W. Adams Combined

Wise County

St. Paul Elementary

Wythe County

Rural Retreat Elementary

York County

Seaford Elementary

Schools recognized for Highest Achievement demonstrated high levels of success across all school quality indicators, including success in narrowing achievement gaps. In order to earn this recognition, schools are required to:

  • Achieve Performance Level One for reading, mathematics, and science based on the student pass rate (which does not include growth measures) for the “all students” group in the school, as well as for each student group in the school.
    • In addition, schools with two student groups could have no more than a five-percentage point difference between the performance of each student group and the “all students” group; schools with three or more student groups could have no more than a ten-percentage point difference between the performance of each student group and the “all students” group.
  • Achieve at Level One in the Chronic Absenteeism, Graduation and Completion Index, and Dropout Rate school quality indicators.

2023-2024 Board of Education Continuous Improvement Award

The 27 schools earning the 2023-2024 Board of Education Continuous Improvement Award are:                          

Division Name

School Name

Amherst County

Amherst County High

Arlington County

Wakefield High

Bath County

Bath County High

Brunswick County

Brunswick High

Buchanan County

Twin Valley High

Campbell County

Rustburg High

Carroll County

Carroll County High

Chesapeake City

Norfolk Highlands Primary

Essex County

Essex High

Fairfax County

Lewis High

Fairfax County

South Lakes High

Fairfax County

West Potomac High

Hampton City

Phoebus High

Loudoun County

Hutchison Farm Elementary

Manassas City

Osbourn High

Mathews County

Mathews High

Norfolk City

St. Helena Elementary

Norton City

J.I. Burton High

Prince William County

Neabsco Elementary

Richmond City

Richmond Career Education and Employment Charter School

Rockingham County

Ottobine Elementary

Rockingham County

Turner Ashby High

Spotsylvania County

Cedar Forest Elementary

Staunton City

Bessie Weller Elementary

Virginia Beach City

Green Run High

Virginia Beach City

Tallwood High

York County

York River Academy

Schools recognized for continuous improvement met at least one of the following criteria based on performance from the 2022-2023 school year data:

  • The school demonstrates an increase in the combined rate for math, reading and science for each of the past three years with a total increase across the three years of ten points or more;
  • The school demonstrates an increase in the combined rate for two or more student groups in reading and math for each of the past three years with a total increase across the three years of ten points or more;
  • The school demonstrates an increase in the Graduation and Completion Index (GCI) for each of the past three years with a total increase across the three years of four percent or more; and school demonstrates a decrease in the dropout rate for each of the past three years with the total reduction across three years of 15 percent or more of the first year’s dropout rate.

For more information about the Board of Education Exemplar Performance Awards, visit the Virginia Department of Education website.

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