There’s a growing issue around book banning in Virginia schools—and Red Wine and Blue seeks to empower parents to defend their children's right to read.
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House Bill 1967 would have required Virginia schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to all K-12 public school students. It failed to pass during the 2023 General Assembly session after the Republican-controlled state House blocked the bill.
Participants on Tuesday discussed “the growing chorus of diverse voices speaking out against politicians and their far-right supporters’ attempts to attack students’ freedom to learn."
After more than eight months of debate, the Virginia Board of Education has reached a compromise and approved new guidance on what the Commonwealth’s students will learn in history and social studies classes from kindergarten through 12th grade.
Despite an ongoing review of the course ordered by Gov. Glenn Youngkin earlier this year, officials in Fairfax, Arlington, and Caroline counties have said that they plan to offer AP African American Studies in high schools next school year.
Last week, the Youngkin administration discovered that the estimates given by an online tool used to see how much funding each school district can expect to receive from the state were wrong. The error will most directly affect schools in poor, rural areas and comes as state lawmakers prepare to debate the state’s budget and competing tax proposals.
