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A little more than a month after the Supreme Court's decision in Brown, on June 26, 1954, [note 1] Senator Byrd vowed to stop integration attempts in Virginia's schools. By the end of that summer, Governor Thomas B. Stanley, a member of the Byrd Organization, had appointed a Commission on Public Education, consisting of 32 white Democrats and chaired by Virginia Senator Garland "Peck" Gray of ...
The NAACP in Virginia and five students filed a federal lawsuit against the Shenandoah County school board in response to their vote last month to restore the names of two schools that previously ...
The most recent conference focused on the 50th anniversary of the official end of Massive Resistance, Virginia's official policy to resist the integration of its public schools, with a conference at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia, featuring panels with students who were unable to attend school, as well as keynote speaker ...
The Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy (also known as the Batten School) is the public policy school of the University of Virginia. The school offers classes and degree programs in public policy and leadership. [1] The school, established in 2007, [2] is closely aligned with many of the university's other schools, including the ...
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued a new executive order Tuesday that will limit or ban cell phone use in public schools – the latest in a string of efforts by officials to crack down on what ...
The school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, plans to vote Thursday on a proposal that would restore the names of Confederate military leaders to two public schools, according to a meeting ...
In 1954, segregation in public schools was struck down entirely with Brown v. Board of Education. This decision faced strong backlash in southern states, and President Eisenhower established a military presence in Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce desegregation of public schools. Desegregation efforts continued to be enforced by the federal ...
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