It's Back to (Micro) School Time! And What Are Micro-Schools Anyway?

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The Daily Signal

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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“Back To School” Yes, it’s back-to-school time in much of Virginia come the first week of August and as we enter a universe where the Supreme Court has cleared the way for the dismantling of the Federal Department of Education, many Virginians feel uneasy about what that future will bring. As we said in the column from last week titled “Could an End to Funding Mean a Start to School Choice?” it is also a time of opportunity to go back to serving the children of Virginia and providing them with the tools to be great adults. In last week’s column we touched on the Virginia Micro-School Network and so many people asked about what that was, we decided that we needed to sit down with Lindsey Zea with the Virginia Micro Schools network to find out what they are and where they are going. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Right, that's it. Come on. Lights out. You've got a test tomorrow. Just two minutes. I'm about to reach the next level. It's going off now. Yeah, whatever. Let's see. Where's the app? Oh, here it is. What? How? Oh, no. You're out. Better look next time. Mom! It's game over for late nights on school nights. EE Wi-Fi controls help you get them off the Wi-Fi and into bed.
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0:41.0	I'm your host, Joe Thomas, Virginia correspondent for The Daily Signal.
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1:48.2	It was the phrase that dogged every single one of my summers growing up.
1:53.0	The phrase, back to school.
1:56.1	There are schools getting ready to start here in the Commonwealth of Virginia as early as August 6th in many of our rural communities, back to school, has already emptied the shelves and they've moved Halloween products onto the big box store shelves because parents are already ready for it.
2:14.1	And we began this conversation last week in one of my written columns, and I wanted to follow up because we brought up a subject that brought a lot of it. And we began this conversation last week in one of my written columns, and I wanted to follow
2:19.1	up because we brought up a subject that brought a lot of questions, and that is the question of
2:23.9	microschools, and what is a microschool? And joining us to talk a little bit about it is Lindsay Z
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