The proposed legislation comes as several Northern Virginia high schools were late notifying students of national merit commendations.
Virginia schools would be required to notify students when they receive awards under legislation proposed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin , his latest response to certain schools’ failure to do so.
“We now know that at least 16 schools across three different school divisions in Northern Virginia withheld notification of accolades from high-performing students in the name of ‘equity.’ Parents are rightfully upset and they should be,” Youngkin said in a statement Wednesday. , “There’s not a lot of kids who didn’t get either award, and we didn’t want them to feel bad about it.” She said he told her the school wanted to hand the letters out “discreetly.”School system officials said last month that they could not verify that conversation took place, though they did not deny it.
, including those in Loudoun and Prince William counties, also reported delays in informing students of their commendations.
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