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EXCLUSIVE: Republican Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin blasted the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) proposals in quest of to strike President George Washington because the “Father of our Country” on statewide assessments.
Washington and fellow Founding Father President James Madison have been dealing with the epithetical reducing block in step with two VDOE proposals.
The proposals would have struck Washington’s identify of “Father of our Country” and Madison’s dub of “Father of the Constitution” from the state’s usual of finding out assessments.
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin stated he disagrees with the Virginia Department of Education proposals concentrated on George Washington and James Madison.
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Youngkin stated he disagrees with the proposals concentrated on two Virginian presidents in a Tuesday telephone interview with Fox News Digital, noting the proposals got here from his predecessor’s management.
“I believe we should tell our history accurately, the good and the bad,” Youngkin stated.
“And part of the history we’re going to tell is that our Founding Fathers, including George Washington and James Madison, and let’s not forget about Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, and the others, played an extraordinary role in the founding of our nation,” Youngkin persevered.
The governor stated that his management will “reinforce” the position the Founding Fathers performed within the advent of America and that Virginia will inform the historical past of America “accurately and completely.”
The VDOE advised native press on Tuesday that the inclusion of the proposals used to be an “inadvertent” error.
The Virginia governor additionally stated he used to be fascinated with his plans to marketing campaign for Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon, noting the political atmosphere within the currently-blue state “is very similar to what we saw in Virginia last year.”

Youngkin will likely be touring as much as Michigan to stump for Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon.
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“Not Republican versus Democrat Democrats, but citizens of Michigan to see real change in education, to see crime come down, to see cost of living managed so much better,” the Old Dominion governor stated. “And we saw the exact same thing in Virginia last year.”
Dixon has made schooling a key side of her marketing campaign, as Youngkin did in opposition to Democrat former Governor Terry McAuliffe within the 2021 gubernatorial race. Youngkin stated he believes GOP applicants around the nation will position a larger emphasis on schooling.
“This is a moment for Republican candidates to recognize that that’s a Republican agenda. And education is what Virginians voted for last year and Americans are looking for,” Youngkin stated. “Parents matter, and what so many people are seeing across this nation is that is the systematic effort to put bureaucrats and politicians between between parents and their children and this idea that parents should be removed from their kids.”
Youngkin stated schooling “is not a Republican versus Democrat” factor and that America is in a second “to put parents back in the primary role in their children’s education.”

Youngkin stated the criminal claims he didn’t pay taxes on cash he constructed from the Carlyle Group have been “wrong.”
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“And this is the moment for Republican candidates to really distinguish themselves,” he added.
Dixon is taking over incumbent Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who has been fielding controversy from nursing house to schooling choices since she used to be elected in 2018.
Youngkin additionally touched at the experiences of a lawsuit alleging he didn’t pay taxes on $8.5 million amid a trade restructuring at his former company the Carlyle Group, denouncing the reporting as “incorrect” and announcing he has paid his taxes.
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“First of all, the claims are wrong,” Youngkin stated, noting he retired from the Carlyle Group two years in the past. “And I just want to be extremely clear: I have paid taxes on these proceeds.”
Youngkin will likely be in Michigan stumping for Dixon later this month as she appears to unseat Whitmer.