{"id":1227512,"date":"2022-01-20T12:38:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T17:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1227512"},"modified":"2022-01-20T12:38:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T17:38:10","slug":"youngkin-orders-virginia-equity-office-to-instead-focus-on-education-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youngkin-orders-virginia-equity-office-to-instead-focus-on-education-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngkin Orders Virginia \u2018Equity\u2019 Office To Instead Focus on Education, Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyoungkin-orders-virginia-equity-office-to-instead-focus-on-education-abortion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1227512&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/\">Politics<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Governor tasks head of office to be &#8216;ambassador for unborn children&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Youngkin-victory-736x491-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Youngkin-victory-scaled-e1635949989607.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Youngkin-victory-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Youngkin-victory-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Youngkin-victory-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Youngkin-victory-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Youngkin-victory-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Youngkin-victory-1400x933.jpeg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tVirginia governor-elect Glenn Youngkin (R.) \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/patrick-hauf\/\" title=\"Posts by Patrick Hauf\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Patrick Hauf<\/a> \u2022 January 20, 2022 12:25 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin (R.) on Wednesday overhauled the state&#8217;s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to focus on economic opportunity, parental rights, and protecting unborn children.<\/p>\n<p>The governor announced the change in an executive order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.virginia.gov\/media\/governorvirginiagov\/governor-of-virginia\/pdf\/74---eo\/74---eo\/EO-10--Focusing-Virginia%27s-Diversity,-Equity,-and-Inclusion-Office-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">naming<\/a> former Heritage Foundation executive Angela Sailor as the office&#8217;s director. Youngkin&#8217;s executive order also expands the scope of the office beyond standard diversity issues. It directs the office &#8220;to eliminate disparities in pre-natal care, and be an ambassador for unborn children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin also announced he would seek to change the name of the department to the Office of Diversity, Opportunity, and Inclusion. Former Virginia governor Ralph Northam (D.) established the office in 2019 after he was accused of wearing blackface in a photo from his medical school yearbook.<\/p>\n<p>On the campaign trail, Youngkin promised to ban critical race theory in schools and restore parental rights in education. Wednesday&#8217;s executive order directs the diversity office to &#8220;be responsive to the rights of parents in educational and curricular decision-making.&#8221; Sailor, a critical race theory critic who served in the Department of Education under former president George W. Bush, is charged with ensuring U.S. history curricula are &#8220;honest, objective, and complete.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sailor was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2022\/01\/19\/youngkin-virginia-cabinet-diversity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">top lieutenant<\/a> to the foundation&#8217;s former president Kay Coles James, whom Youngkin appointed secretary of the commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p>Under Northam, the office worked to increase racial diversity in the government and educate Virginia leaders about &#8220;systemic inequity and its effects.&#8221; Youngkin&#8217;s executive order instead directs the office to protect free speech and promote viewpoint diversity in higher education.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Youngkin&#8217;s team scrubbed the &#8220;Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion&#8221; section from the governor&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Governor tasks head of office to be &#8216;ambassador for unborn children&#8217;  Virginia governor-elect Glenn Youngkin (R.) \/ Getty Images  Patrick Hauf \u2022 January &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}