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Executive Schedule
9:30 AM: GOVERNOR GLENN YOUNGKIN DELIVERS REMARKS AT THE JOINT MONEY COMMITTEE MEETING
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Youngkin to set aside nearly $400 million for new tax relief in next budget - Richmond Times-Dispatch
by Michael Martz
Gov. Glenn Youngkin will set aside almost $400 million for additional tax relief in the budget he will propose in December, using almost $3.2 billion in surplus revenue and unspent appropriations in the fiscal year that ended on June 30.
In an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Thursday, Youngkin said he has directed new Comptroller Randy McCabe to set aside $397 million for a taxpayer relief fund that the governor will ask the General Assembly to create in its next legislative session that starts in January.
Virginia officials blame lagging test scores on pandemic school closures - Washington Post
The Virginia Education Department said students are still bearing the scars of prolonged pandemic-related school closures, releasing test scores from last school year that showed them performing behind pre-pandemic levels.
While students saw across-the-board gains in the 2021-2022 school year compared to the previous academic year, state education officials said the progress was not enough, and pinned some of the good news on lowered standards — not on better student performance.
VMI’s male cadets were berating her. The 1997 Hell Week photo went viral. - Washington Post
by Ian Shapira
Megan Smithwas lost.
It was Aug. 20, 1997, a landmark week at the Virginia Military Institute. After a fierce battle that had gone all the way to the Supreme Court, the nation’s oldest state-supported military college had finally admitted women.
Smith was one of them.Inside the school’s Gothic Revivalbarracks, the 17-year-old from Colorado was trying to survive Hell Week and VMI’s “rat line” — the intense boot camp-style training for freshmen, known on the Lexington campus as “rats.”
Former Virginia deputy attorney general sues old office - Courthouse News
by Joe Dodson
Suing Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares for defamation on Wednesday, a woman fired just weeks after she was hired as a deputy attorney general says the office falsely labeled her departure as a resignation.
Monique Miles claims that Miyares fired her for her opinions on the 2020 election and the riot on the U.S. Capitol that followed on Jan. 6, 2021. Represented by the Arlington, Virginia, lawyer Steven Krieger, she filed suit in Richmond City Circuit Court, seeking $1 million in damages.
