The Virginia Board of Education considers new standards for history and social studies, which proponents say will offer a more comprehensive picture of America's past.
Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow said a delay in reviewing history standards is not connected to the governor's campaign pledge to ban the teaching of critical race theory.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, criticized proposals from the Virginia Department of Education to remove references to George Washington as the “father of our country” in state schools, underscoring the need to “tell our history accurately.”
The governor of Virginia is not a fan of efforts to downgrade the status of George Washington and James Madison in the history teaching of the state’s public schools.