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Last month, the state board of education unanimously rejected standards from Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s team.

The Virginia Board of Education held a public hearing last week on new draft standards for history and social studies (via VDOE/YouTube) Fairfax County’s teacher unions expressed relief after new state-proposed history standards were rejected by a governor-appointed board late last week. On Thursday evening (Nov. 17), Virginia’s Board of Education voted unanimously to again

Virginias proposed social studies standards attracted national scrutiny after an earlier version was released with scant mention of Martin Luther King Jr.

In an email, OAG staff said the board of education allowing public comment would violate its own bylaws.

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The Virginia Board of Education has made the decision to pause the process of reworking the state’s History and Social Science Standards of Learning, which determines what students are expected to know after going through classes.

It now appears the State Board of Education might not get a final review of the standards from the Department of Education until January.

The Virginia Board of Education is delaying a vote on the state’s new history and social science standards by a month to address concerns with timing and a number of

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.

Institutions interested in setting up K-12 laboratory schools can soon begin applying for $5 million in state funding to help prepare school design proposals.