by MCDC | Jan 25, 2014 | Education, Income Inequality, Video
Bill Moyers and Neil deGrasse Tyson discuss why science literacy is important for the future of our democracy, economy and standing in the world: “Science literacy is an inoculation against charlatans who would exploit your ignorance of scientific law to then...
by MCDC | Jan 22, 2014 | Action Alerts, Education, Virginia
There is often debate about what exactly the First Amendment means, however, in an 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists, Thomas Jefferson made clear that the purpose of the First Amendment was to establish a “wall of separation” between Church and State in...
by MCDC | Sep 4, 2013 | Education, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
Tax-cuts For the Rich, Cuts to Education for Everyone Else Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s proposed $1.4 billion income tax cut would necessitate an annual reduction of at least $525 million in state education funding, leading to layoffs of more than 8,000...
by MCDC | Aug 23, 2013 | Economy, Education, Environment, Ethics, Health Care, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
From This Week In Richmond, Senator Ralph Northam offers an in-depth perspective on the issues and challenges facing Virginia....
by MCDC | Aug 19, 2013 | Education, Sequester
Head Start programs across the country eliminated services for 57,000 children in the coming school year to balance budgets diminished by the federal sequester, cutting 1.3 million days from Head Start center calendars and laying off or reducing pay for more than...
by MCDC | Aug 9, 2013 | Action Alerts, Education
The Texas Taliban — also known as the right-wing majority on the Texas State Board of Education — wants to revise the state’s standards for science textbooks to require the addition of religious pseudoscience when teaching subjects like biology. And this...
