All 133 Virginia school superintendents urge Youngkin to scrap tip line, effort to root out policies
All 133 Virginia school superintendents urge Youngkin to scrap tip line, effort to root out policies deemed ‘divisive’
RICHMOND — All 133 of Virginia’s public school division superintendents have urged Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) to scrap the “tip line” set up to let parents complain about teachers and principals and have asked him to stop his crusade against the teaching of “divisive” content in schools.
The superintendents expressed their concerns in a letter Thursday to Jillian Balow, the state superintendent of schools, saying a recent administration report that rooted out policies aimed at racial equity was misguided and prepared without input from school districts around the state.
“Division superintendents disagree with your assumption that discriminatory and divisive concepts have become widespread in Virginia school divisions,” states the letter from Howard B. Kiser, executive director of the Virginia Association of School Superintendents.
It faults Balow for condemning and discontinuing a slate of racial equity programs “without having involved educators in formulating that position or without having provided evidence to support that position.”
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