{"id":949672,"date":"2021-11-01T13:14:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T17:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=949672"},"modified":"2021-11-01T13:14:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T17:14:06","slug":"parents-matter-in-education-glenn-youngkin-makes-final-case-for-tuesday-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parents-matter-in-education-glenn-youngkin-makes-final-case-for-tuesday-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Parents Matter in Education\u2019: Glenn Youngkin Makes Final Case for Tuesday Victory\u00a0"},"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\">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%2Fparents-matter-in-education-glenn-youngkin-makes-final-case-for-tuesday-victory%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=949672&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--><p class=\"subheading\">Candidate Glenn Youngkin focused on&nbsp;education and&nbsp;parents in his final pitch ahead of Tuesday\u2019s gubernatorial election in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must empower parents, and address their concerns about school safety, the school curriculum and the decline in standards and results in Virginia schools,\u201d&nbsp;Youngkin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/virginia-parents-student-schools-youngkin-glenn\">wrote<\/a> in a Fox News op-ed to secure the vote of parents who are concerned about Critical Race Theory (CRT) being taught in schools.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Youngkin\u2019s opponent has denied CRT is being taught to Virginia\u2019s student. \u201cIt\u2019s not taught here in Virginia,\u201d Terry McAuliffe claimed about CRT on October 7. \u201cWe can ask about any topic. Here\u2019s what I\u2019ve said all along, and it really bothers me \u2014 this whole idea of stirring parents up to create divisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin\u2019s education plan includes more than just banning CRT.&nbsp;Youngkin also believes charter schools in the state should be expanded from eight to 28. \u201cMy Day One Game Plan calls for the immediate formation of 20 Innovation Charter Schools within the public school system,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirginia\u2019s kids can\u2019t wait,\u201d&nbsp;Youngkin said about the need for Virginia\u2019s educational system to be accommodate the demand for school choice. \u201cFewer than half of Black children in the third grade and barely half of Black children in the sixth grade passed reading assessments.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Youngkin noted the \u201ccrisis\u201d of violence at schools in reference to the \u201cheinous\u201d sexual assault case in&nbsp;Loudoun County, a bluer part of northern Virginia.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18550690\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1350518490.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18550690\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1350518490-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin speaks to supporters after a campaign rally on October 31, 2021 in Abingdon, Virginia.(Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cRecently, I called for an immediate, full investigation of the heinous sexual assaults that clearly appear to have been covered up by Loudoun County officials,\u201d Youngkin wrote, \u201cincluding the superintendent, school board members, and the commonwealth attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin doubled down on Attorney General Merrick Garland for permitting an FBI probe into parents that was predicated on a faulty memo from National School Board Association (NSBA) which labeled parents \u201cdomestic terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of investigating parents, the Department of Justice should be investigating those who were involved in the coverup,\u201d&nbsp;Youngkin stated.<\/p>\n<p>As Youngkin has run on state issues of education and parental rights, a Republican victory in Virginia would likely have national implications. A win for Youngkin would make it difficult for President Joe Biden to pass his radical tax and spend agenda.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on Twitter&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candidate Glenn Youngkin focused on\u00a0education and\u00a0parents in his final pitch ahead of Tuesday\u2019s gubernatorial election in Virginia. \u201cWe must empower parents, and address their concerns about school safety, the school &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"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-949672","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\/949672","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949672\/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=949672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}