"Legislation that passed both houses of the Virginia legislature by slim margins will require state teachers to complete “cultural competency” training to keep their licenses.
...The legislation also requires history teachers seeking licensure to have an “endorsement” for teaching African-American history.
The bills came about via the Virginia Commission on African American History Education which determined state schools “were doing a subpar job of teaching Black history.” The two-year-old commission’s lengthy report alleged “teachings of Black history [were] ‘incomplete’ and ‘tainted with a master narrative that marginalized or erased the presence of non-Europeans from the American landscape.’”...Read all.
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