VA Superintendent of Public Instruction resigns

Virginia’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jillian Balow, resigned Wednesday in a letter to Gov. Glenn Youngkin. Balow will be a consultant for the Youngkin administration once she leaves the post on March 9. Balow said that she was proud of moving Youngkin’s education agenda forward during the past two Virginia General Assembly sessions. Her tenure has been marked by controversy by issuing draft revisions to Virginia’s K-12 standards for history and social science, that received heavy criticism over omissions and errors, and also a mathematical error that led some K-12 school districts to get less funding than they expected to receive, but was later corrected by the General Assembly.