Virginia's Board of Education rejected ⁦@GovernorVA 's new history standards

[Yonnie3]

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Public outcry matters. Yesterday, Virginia’s Board of Education rejected ⁦@GovernorVA ⁩’s new history standards!

Stay tuned — there will be more drafts. Democracy dies in darkness and we have to shine a light.
K-12 history standards
richmond.com
Board of Education rejects Youngkin's proposed revisions to K-12 history standards
The board, with a majority appointed by Youngkin, tells the Department of Education to fix mistakes and incorporate aspects of the Northam administration's draft.

From Richmond.com https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/board-of-education-rejects-youngkins-proposed-revisions-to-k-12-history-standards/article_ac6dbdb1-8632-5abd-97e4-39b978982b3f.html

Board of Education rejects Youngkin's proposed revisions to K-12 history standards

The state Board of Education, with a majority appointed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, on Thursday rejected a revised version of the state’s K-12 history standards proposed by his administration, which had caused a public uproar due to several missteps and a reframing of race relations.

The state education department released a new draft of K-12 history standards on Friday that was developed over the course of a few months, disregarding a draft document developed under former Gov. Ralph Northam’s administration over the course of nearly two years.

The board on Thursday evening delayed action on the new draft and voted 8-0 to direct the department to create a new draft document, using the Youngkin draft as a baseline, fixing all mistakes and incorporating elements of the Northam document. (One of the four holdover Northam appointees was absent Thursday.)

The board had been set to vote on the original Northam draft in August, but state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow urged the board to delay a vote to give more time for review by newly appointed members.

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[Lovie777]

1. Republican governors truly feel that they are above man's laws and rules .....

in their sick minds, they truly believe their Gawd trumps everything.

[barbtries]

2. i don't know about that.

i think they're cynical and power mad and they hate women, POC, LGBTQ, and gawd is just what they roll out to try to validate it.
i know there are true believers but few and far between in my opinion. very few, very far between. religion is the opiate of the masses.

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. Just let me...

Republicans truly feel that they are above man's laws and rules ...

There... fixed that for you.

(I used to live in Nansemond County... before Suffolk swallowed it. I even had a bumper sticker on my bike about that.)