Barnes is the Dorothy Danforth Compton Professor and a professor of practice at UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. She also is a senior fellow at the Karsh Center for Law & Democracy and affiliated faculty member at UVA’s School of Law.
She has spent more than 25 years crafting public policy on a wide range of domestic issues and is co-founder of the domestic strategy firm MB2 Solutions LLC. She formerly was an adviser to President Barack Obama and director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. A lawyer by trade, Barnes also served as chief counsel to the late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee and was executive vice president for policy at the Center for American Progress.
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The report accuses Calbright’s former leadership of laying the groundwork for a host of problems: inflated salaries, unethical hiring practices, too few supports for students. The report also flagged a lack of strategic planning by current leaders for approximately $175 million in state funding the college is slated to receive through June 2025.
“Because of these missteps, Calbright has struggled to adequately enroll the students it was intended to serve, took longer than it should have to develop a student support system, and did not adequately partner with employers in the development of its educational programs, thereby hindering its ability to assist its students in obtaining jobs,” Elaine Howle, the California state auditor, said in her report.
In their research, the McGarritys learned about how many children were being aborted with a prenatal diagnosis.
“I contacted the National Down Syndrome Adoption Network to ask if it was crazy to be a parent of a child with Down syndrome who also wants to adopt a child with Down syndrome,” McGarrity said. “The woman on the other end of the line said, ‘I have four children with Down syndrome,’ and I was like, ‘Ok, I guess I’m not crazy.’”
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