Youngkin donates first quarter salary to law enforcement assistance fund

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Gov. Glenn Youngkin plans to donate his first quarter salary — $43,750 — to a fund that helps officers and first responders after traumatic incidents in the line of duty.

Youngkin announced the donation at an event in Harrisonburg on Wednesday.

The Virginia Law Enforcement Assistance Program helps officers facing trauma from workplace incidents. Their programming includes a retreat with workshops, therapy and peer mentoring for officers struggling with the emotional effects of traumatic event.

Youngkin donates first quarter salary to law enforcement assistance fund

Very commendable.....Now while I would not expect a less wealthy Governor to do that it's a pleasant change from the other rich money-grubbing GovenWhores.

 

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Meh, virtue signaling as they all do.

Government salary is not where politicians make money. They make it by being able to wield power and avoid insider trading laws they pass on the rest of us. I care not who donates the paltry dollars the government pays power players, it is irrelevant.

 

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Meh, virtue signaling as they all do.

Government salary is not where politicians make money. They make it by being able to wield power and avoid insider trading laws they pass on the rest of us. I care not who donates the paltry dollars the government pays power players, it is irrelevant.

Well the fund he "virtue-signaled" to just got almost 44K to help officers and their families.

Youngkin is worth a half-billion already.....I bet Tater keeps every nickel he earns takes under false pretenses.

 

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Well the fund he "virtue-signaled" to just got almost 44K to help officers and their families.

Youngkin is worth a half-billion already.....I bet Tater keeps every nickel he earns takes under false pretenses.

That's nice.

Does not change a thing I said. It was virtue signaling. Sure, its is better than half the stunts the senate usually pulls, they are a bunch of jokers. I still don't give a rats ass though.

I am more interested in how he treats education.

 

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That's nice.

Does not change a thing I said. It was virtue signaling. Sure, its is better than half the stunts the senate usually pulls, they are a bunch of jokers. I still don't give a rats ass though.

I am more interested in how he treats education.

He signed these two bills into law a couple days back.

HB 938 (Robinson) – Board of Education; stakeholder group; evaluation of and recommendations for certain current and proposed policies and performance standards for public elementary and secondary schools. Requires the Board of Education to collaborate with the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Secretary of Education to convene a group of stakeholders to include parents, public school principals, public school superintendents, public school board members, public school teachers, institutions of higher education, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, industry partners and employers, and other concerned stakeholders to evaluate, to implement where possible, and to otherwise make recommendations to the General Assembly regarding the following goals: (i) promoting excellence in instruction and student achievement in mathematics; (ii) expanding the Advanced Studies Diploma as an option for students in public high schools in the Commonwealth; (iii) increasing the transparency and honesty of performance measures for public elementary and secondary schools in the Commonwealth; (iv) ensuring that performance measures for public elementary and secondary schools prioritize the attainment of grade-level proficiency and growth during the course of a school year and from school year to school year in reading and mathematics for all students, especially in grades kindergarten through five; (v) ensuring that the Commonwealth’s proficiency standards on Standards of Learning assessments in reading and mathematics are maintained; and (vi) ensuring a strong accreditation system that promotes meaningful accountability year-over-year. The bill requires the Secretary of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction, no later than November 30, 2022, to report to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health the results of such evaluation and recommendations to achieve such goals.

SB 656 (Dunnavant) – Department of Education; local school boards; policies on sexually explicit content in instructional material. Requires the Department of Education to develop no later than July 31, 2022, model policies and each local school board to adopt no later than January 1, 2023, policies for ensuring parental notification of any instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and include information, guidance, procedures, and standards relating to (i) ensuring parental notification; (ii) directly identifying the specific instructional material and sexually explicit subjects; and (iii) permitting the parent of any student to review instructional material that includes sexually explicit content and provide, as an alternative, nonexplicit instructional material, and related academic activities to any student whose parent so requests. The bill provides that the local school board policies shall be consistent with but maybe more comprehensive than the model policies developed by the Department. The bill states that the provisions of the bill shall not be construed as requiring or providing for the censoring of books in public elementary and secondary schools.