Fri Feb 10, 2023 – 5:12 pm EST
RICHMOND (LifeSiteNews) – Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin excoriated Democrats in the Virginia Senate Tuesday for voting to remove one of his appointees to the Virginia Board of Education who he says “epitomizes parental involvement in our schools.”
Last July, Youngkin appointed to the board Suparna Dutta, a mother, immigrant from India, and prominent critic of the Fairfax County School District, particularly its admissions process that she said devalued merit in the name of racial “representation.”
Democrats voted to reject Dutta on Tuesday, claiming she lacked sufficient work history in education, one week after a contentious board meeting in which she argued for proposed changes to the state’s history and social studies curriculum that would, among other things, identify socialism as “incompatible with democracy and individual freedoms.”
At the meeting, Dutta spared with board member Anne Holton (the wife of U.S. senator and 2016 vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine), who had argued that “you cannot reference the Declaration of Independence and Constitution as remarkable documents without also acknowledging that they contain fundamental flaws of enshrining slavery and limiting the protections that they provided for only to white, propertied
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