Gov. Glenn Youngkin's administration is pushing to rewrite Virginia's K-12 history curriculum with help from conservative think tanks. The first draft has already prompted at least 2 rounds of corrections and one apology.
Opponents lambasted the proposed changes as a revisionist whitewash during a four-hour public comment period.
The plan drew especially strong criticism from Black, Asian, Sikh and Native American parents, who said the curriculum excluded their stories. Board member Anne Holton, a Democrat appointed by Northam, wondered why Ronald Reagan was mentioned five times but the country's first Black president, Barack Obama, wasn't mentioned once.At Thursday's meeting, Balow said the initial deletion of references to Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth were unintentional errors that had been corrected.
But she contended that the new draft still represented a major improvement and noted it included the creation of a brand new unit focused on the civil rights movement., she insisted the material could still be included as part of a curriculum framework she said would be developed later.
"The public is worried about what's in and out," said Youngkin appointee Andy Rotherham. That uncertainty, he said, "is creating a ton of confusion and angst."
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