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Youngkin admin chastises union for Black Lives Matter school toolkit and more Va. headlines

The State Capitol. (Ned Oliver/ Virginia Mercury)
• Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration chastised a Virginia teachers union for distributing a set of Black Lives Matter resources for schools, calling it a “politically driven curriculum toolkit.” The toolkit promotes a variety of anti-racism tenets as well as “disruption of the Western nuclear family dynamics.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch
• Youngkin tapped political appointee R. Christopher Lindsay as the temporary leader of the Virginia Department of Health after Senate Democrats blocked the confirmation of former Health Commissioner Colin Greene.—Washington Post
• A historic building that housed one of America’s first schools for Black students was put on wheels and moved to a new location in Williamsburg.—Virginia Gazette
• Two men were arrested Saturday for allegedly breaking into a Dominion Energy facility in Northern Virginia. Authorities say they believe the men were hoping to steal copper wire.—WUSA9
• In a new essay, famous author Margaret Atwood takes a Virginia school board to task for removing her novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” and several other books from its high school library.—The Atlantic
by Staff Report, Virginia Mercury
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