Wed Jan 19, 2022 – 8:13 am EST
RICHMOND, Virginia (LifeSiteNews) — Virginia’s Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin is following through on a campaign promise to restore parental rights in education by picking a well-known education advocate for an important role in his administration.
Youngkin nominated Elizabeth Schultz for the role of Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction at the Virginia Department of Education. Schultz has a history of supporting parental rights and standing up against the liberal education agenda.
“Elizabeth is passionate about effective education and public policy development which champions academic excellence for all students,” Youngkin’s team said in a press release. The governor’s office said Schultz “respects parental rights and student data privacy, and encourages citizen engagement, transparency and accountability, and fiscally responsible limited government.”
As a Fairfax County School Board member, Schultz opposed opening up female bathrooms to men. She also supported the rights of parents to take their children out of the classroom during sex education classes.
After she had left the board, she returned to a school board meeting in 2021 to speak out against sexually explicit material in classrooms. School board members and parents were in conflict over the use of
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