Virginia is taking a closer look at how it teaches history and social studies and that鈥檚 led to some disagreement and some delays.
A Virginia Board of Education vote planned for November to finalize for history and social studies lessons has been pushed back to January 2023.
Public hearings scheduled for this month, followed by final approval in November had been expected after the revision process was first postponed back in August.
Now, public hearings are scheduled for Dec. 5-9.
This would be the first change to the Virginia’ History and Social Science Standards of Learning 鈥� or SOLs, the standards that determine what students are expected to know, since 2015.
As 海角社区app previously reported, some of the revisions in the proposed standards include more emphasis on local history and Virginia鈥檚 role in the American Revolution. That includes a reference change, using 鈥淣orth America鈥檚 Indigenous Peoples鈥� instead of 鈥淣ative Americans.鈥� 鈥嬧��
There鈥檚 been criticism about what the new standards might look like, but Board of Education President Daniel Gecker said, “as of today, comments that we are changing or not teaching all history are just not factually correct.”
海角社区app’s John Aaron contributed to this report.
