Moments after pledging to “remove politics from the classroom,” Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin (R.) issued an executive order to end “the use of divisive concepts, …
Moments after pledging to “remove politics from the classroom,” Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin (R.) issued an executive order to end “the use of divisive concepts, including critical race theory” from public schools. Youngkin was sworn in as the state’s 74th governor Saturday, roughly two months after he became the first Republican to win statewide in Virginia in more than a decade. He wasted no time addressing his campaign pledge to ban critical race theory—one of his nine day-one executive orders aims to “restore excellence in education” by ensuring CRT is not taught in public Virginia classrooms. “We will remove politics from the classroom and re-focus on essential math, science and reading,” Youngkin said to widespread applause during his inauguration address.
