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Governor-Elect Glenn Youngkin announced Monday he chose a data policy consultant, Aimee Rogstad Guidera, to serve as Virginia’s next Secretary of Education.
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Republican Glenn Youngkin campaigned on a platform of cutting taxes, and now he's working with Republicans in the General Assembly to eliminate the grocery tax, press the pause button on a gas tax increase, double the standard deduction and give one-time rebates.
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On the campaign trail, Glenn Youngkin promised to do away with the state’s grocery tax and offer tax cuts to working families in Virginia.And those proposals have found their way into the outgoing governor’s budget plan.
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Eliminating the grocery tax used to be a liberal idea, something that progressives argued for because it would help mainly low-income people. Then Republican candidate for governor Glenn Youngkin campaigned on it. Now lawmakers from both parties appear poised to make it happen.
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A Republican bill to ban critical race theory from Virginia classrooms will have to face a Senate Education Committee with nine Democrats and six Republicans. And any effort to roll back environmental targets for reducing carbon emissions; well, that’ll have to face a Senate Commerce and Labor Committee with 12 Democrats and only three Republicans.
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When Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin takes office, he’ll find state coffers full of cash. The question is what will he and the General Assembly do with it?
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A presentation by budget planners Tuesday revealed the extra obstacles school closures face to education funding, two years out.
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Journalists and analysts called this month’s election for Republicans a few hours after the polls closed, but Monday the State Board of Elections certified local election boards’ results.
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Virginia currently has only seven charter schools; a very small number compared to District of Columbia, Arizona, Colorado or Florida.
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With voting in Virginia’s gubernatorial election over, a Republican is heading back to Virginia's Governor's Mansion. Governor Ralph Northam met Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin there for lunch in the first step of what appears to be a collaborative transition.