The Departments of Education and Agriculture sent letters to the governors of 16 states, demanding that they rectify funding gaps between HBCUs and state universities.
Letter writers argue the Youngkin "administration has provided the highest per student investment at our public historically Black colleges and universities of any other gubernatorial administration since 1994," push for teaching the basics in school, and urge recycling in Virginia Beach.
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The government of the commonwealth of Virginia is pushing back against a claim by the federal government that it underfunded Virginia State University, a historically Black land-grant institution, according to The Progress-Index