Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has appointed two critics of the CRT (critical race theory) to senior positions in the Virginia Department of Education, keeping his campaign vow to outlaw the program, Fox News informed.
Jillian Balow will work as a public instruction superintendent, and Elizabeth Schultz will serve as her public instruction assistant superintendent.
Balow is a Wyoming native who previously served as the state’s superintendent of public instruction for seven years before being recruited to serve in Virginia by Youngkin.
She has also worked as a national literacy consultant, a special policy adviser to Matt Mead, the former Republican Wyoming Governor, and is a proponent of complete openness in teacher curricula.
Balow has been an outspoken critic of CRT.
She stood in support of the last year’s legislation aimed at weeding out the curriculum in Wyoming schools and requiring schools to disclose lists of instruction materials, asserting, that “K-12 classes are not a proper forum for a radical concept such as CRT.”
Balow will be assisted by Schultz.
She is a senior fellow for the Parents Defending Education, a nationwide group that aims to “reclaim schools from radicals advocating damaging agendas.” She was also a member of the Fairfax School Board.
In June, she wrote an op-ed in the Richmond Times-Dispatch criticizing CRT in the schools in Virginia, claiming that it “creates division” and is “progressing Marxist agenda which says that all interactions are deduced from racism and that the history of the US and the nation are formed on racism, and all disparities are attributed to racism.”
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