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"EdEquityVA" is one of many educator resources on the Virginia Department of Education website, awash with links that include language often associated with critical race theory. For example, the site says it will enact “culturally responsible teaching” to make the commonwealth’s schools “equitable.” It also directs educators to numerous external resources that discuss concepts such as “systems of oppression” and “taking action on racial equity and justice.” The website further promotes “anti-racism in education ” and insists that “schools ... create and enforce racial meanings.”

At the end of last April the news broke that the Islamic Saudi Academy in Fairfax County, Virginia used textbooks that included vicious anti-Christian and anti-Semitic Teaching. Two months later, the Fairfax board of supervisors, punted the problem to the state department. That was followed up with two letters by Congressman Frank Wolf has to former Secretary of State, Condoleezza the Apeezza asking her to look into the situation. Until yesterday nothing happened, but now the Saudi Academy can say proudly that very little has been done. They announced yesterday a change in the text books that take out a...