At the end of a long, extremely difficult year, Lee Lynch tries to find the silver linings to the many clouds that hung over us all in 2020. The year 2020 wasn’t a total bust, except for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who should not have died or have been...
Virtual Learning a Mixed Bag For Special Education Students, Teachers
The COVID-19 era has restructured education for everyone, especially students with disabilities. The lack of peer interaction has negatively impacted some students with disabilities, while allowing others to thrive in the digital classroom. Sebastian and Gabriel Saxon...
The Psychological Cost of RCJC Quarantine
In the Richmond City Jail, COVID safety protocols look a lot like torture. If anyone doubts how little the City of Richmond values the emotional well-being of incarcerated people, they should look no further than the Richmond City Jail's harsh (and unacknowledged)...
New Virginia Laws Seek to Close ‘School-to-Prison Pipeline’
When Virginia's schoolchildren return to in-person schooling after the pandemic, they'll return to a school system in which criminal punishments for unruly in-school behavior have largely been taken off the table. The near future of in-person schooling is uncertain...
Karen Pence’s Anti-LGBTQ School Got $725K in COVID Bailout Funds
The school is out front with its anti-LGBTQ politics, yet that didn't stop Trump's administration from offering them nearly three-quarters of a million dollars through the Paycheck Protection Program. The Immanuel Christian private school in Springfield, Virginia bans...
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