Winsome Sears slams teachers unions over Virginia merit mayhem: 'Making education in their own image'
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Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears calls out "rogue educators" and teachers unions over the merit awards scandal, criticizing the push for woke ideology in schools on "Cavuto Live."
Seventeen schools reportedly delayed notifying students who received National Merit Awards, despite claims it was originally a clerical error at one of the schools in Fairfax County. The controversy expanded to Loudoun and Prince Williams Counties. Madeline Coggins is a Digital Production Assistant on the Fox News flash team with Fox News Digital.
"That's why parents are waking up," she continued. "You talk about woke. They are awakening because COVID policies — policies, not COVID, but COVID policies that forced our children to remain home and look at a computer screen for public education — showed parents all is not well."
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