Virginia currently has a patchwork approach to schooling, with some public and private schools offering in-person learning but others offering only virtual school.
The difference is, the rainbow coalition that is the education choice movement also has been working to ensure all parents have the power to do what Weingarten’s friends and family did that is, to choose the learning options they know are best for their children, instead of being stuck with what the state assigns.
Millions of parents need those options now more than ever. How twisted, though, that it’s often because of union leaders that they both need them and can’t get them. Teachers unions are a leading reason that parents across America can’t access the in-person learning they want for their kids. At the same time, it’s the teachers unions who, for decades, have been the roadblock to expanding choice.
"I think that the schools really do need more resources and that s the reason why the national relief act that we re talking about getting passed, we need that," the top infectious diseases expert
Beloved D.C. teacher and salon owner remembered for dedication to Southeast Washington Perry Stein When Helenmaire White closed her Anacostia hair salon in 2014, her children hoped she would retire. She and her husband raised five children, and they operated a bustling salon for 30 years on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue that doubled as a friendly and spiritual gathering spot for so many Southeast Washington residents. Her son Tony White II thought it was time. But White wasn’t ready. She wanted to continue with her second job as a cosmetology teacher at Ballou STAY, an alternative school for students who struggled in mainstream classrooms to receive high school diplomas and vocational degrees. White became a mother to many young women in her classrooms, teaching some how to be mothers themselves and, of course, she taught them how to complete her signature finger-wave hairstyle.