{"id":577937,"date":"2021-06-30T18:20:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T22:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=577937"},"modified":"2021-06-30T18:20:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T22:20:54","slug":"republican-virginia-gov-candidate-unveils-plan-to-stop-standards-lowering-ideology-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-virginia-gov-candidate-unveils-plan-to-stop-standards-lowering-ideology-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Virginia Gov Candidate Unveils Plan To Stop Standards-Lowering, Ideology In Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Frepublican-virginia-gov-candidate-unveils-plan-to-stop-standards-lowering-ideology-in-schools%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=577937&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232836914-youngkin-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Republican candidate for governor of Virginia Glenn Youngkin will on Wednesday unveil a plan to \u201crestore an academic standard of excellence in Virginia schools and return common sense to the classroom, so that children are taught how to think instead of what to think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since Democrats took control of the state legislature in 2019, residents have noticed a rapid decline in education, with schools remaining closed for most of the year due to coronavirus at the behest of teachers unions and state agencies focusing on using schools to indoctrinate with fringe racial ideas and lowering standards in an attempt to create equal racial statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin will make restoring schools to engines of rigorous academics that are responsive to parents\u2019 desires a campaign centerpiece, his campaign said. He will release the plan in Loudoun County, a D.C. suburb that has become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/loudoun-teachers-target-parents-critical-race-theory-hacking\">national avatar<\/a> of the excesses of ideology in state-funded compulsory education.<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin said he would ensure that schools are \u201cnever again closed unnecessarily for extensive periods of time\u201d and increase the number of advanced classes and magnet schools, which Democrats have attacked for having too many Asians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/state-pta-threatens-to-disband-tj-pta-after-its-asian-parents-reject-anti-merit-policies\">State PTA Threatens To Disband Magnet School PTA After It Elects Anti-Critical Race Theory Board<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said he would make transparency a top priority, giving parents the right to know what their children are being taught. And the plan would \u201cremove politics from the classroom\u201d and focus on the fundamentals of reading, writing, and math.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not hold students back from achievement,\u201d the plan said.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would ensure that standards are not lowered so that numbers represent \u201cactual standards of excellence, not the perception of such,\u201d according to a copy of the plan obtained by The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>In order to make the proficiency rates look better, the state made it easier to attain passing scores on its annual standardized tests, and now has the lowest expectations in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c48 of the 49 states included in the study had standards at or above the NAEP Basic level\u2026 while one state\u2014Virginia\u2014had standards below the NAEP Basic level,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/nationsreportcard\/subject\/publications\/studies\/pdf\/2021036.pdf\">according<\/a> to the U.S. Department of Education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dem-tells-high-school-grads-theyre-entering-capitalism-white-supremacy-remember-jihad-reject-objectivity\">Dem Tells High School Grads They\u2019re Entering A World Of \u201cCapitalism\u201d and \u201cWhite Supremacy,\u201d Encourages Them To Remember \u201cJihad\u201d And Reject Objectivity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But artificially increasing the pass rate of a state-administered test doesn\u2019t actually make students smarter: only <a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/nationsreportcard\/subject\/publications\/stt2019\/pdf\/2020014VA8.pdf\">one-third<\/a> of Virginia 8th-graders met national reading standards based on the federal NAEP, known as the \u201cNation\u2019s Report Card.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From 2014 to 2021, Virginia\u2019s national ranking in terms of Advanced Placement (AP) scores dropped from third place to tenth place, the campaign noted.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic nominee for governor is Terry McAuliffe, a former Virginia governor and Hillary Clinton confidante who has a close relationship with teachers unions. It was his State Board of Education which lowered the standards, Youngkin\u2019s campaign said.<\/p>\n<p>Since the new standards, not a single school has been denied accreditation, it said, and 92% received \u201cfull accreditation\u201d in 2018-19. That was an increase in the number of schools given a stamp of approval despite test scores dropping.<\/p>\n<p>McAuliffe on Wednesday also weighed in on education, tweeting his support for higher pay for teachers, a teachers-union priority.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.434782608696\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Together, we will raise teacher pay ABOVE the national average for the first time in the history of our Commonwealth. Building a world-class education system starts with paying our teachers a fair wage.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Terry McAuliffe (@TerryMcAuliffe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TerryMcAuliffe\/status\/1410254558299832322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>McAuliffe\u2019s rhetoric has largely consisted of attempting to associate Youngkin with former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/virginia-democrats-say-parents-who-want-schools-to-reopen-might-be-kkk\">Virginia Democrats Say Parents Who Want Schools To Reopen Might Be KKK Members<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican candidate for governor of Virginia Glenn Youngkin will on Wednesday unveil a plan to \u201crestore an academic standard of excellence in Virginia schools and return common sense to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313791,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232836914-youngkin-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Republican Virginia Gov Candidate Unveils Plan To Stop Standards-Lowering, Ideology In Schools","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1232836914-youngkin-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Republican Virginia Gov Candidate Unveils Plan To Stop Standards-Lowering, Ideology In Schools","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577937","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=577937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}