Despite Youngkin winning on education reform, VA teachers union finds way to bypass CRT ban

The Virginia teachers union encouraged educators across the state to push content similar to critical race theory despite Gov. Glenn Youngkin's ban on the material.

The Virginia Education Association (VEA) pushed a "Black Lives Matter at School toolkit" for the organization's annual "week of action" in February, encouraging its members to participate and offering the toolkit as a "resource guide for advancing racial justice in Virginia’s schools," according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

The toolkit provided to educators promotes 13 "guiding principles" of Black Lives Matter, including "working towards a queer-affirming network where heteronormative thinking no longer exists" and the "disruption of Western nuclear family dynamics and a return to the ‘collective village’ that takes care of each other."