There may be no better evidence of Virginia’s need to upgrade its history education than the debate over “school choice” now playing out in Richmond.
The Virginia Constitution specifies in Article VIII, Section 10, that “No appropriation of public funds shall be made to any school or institution of learning not owned or exclusively controlled by the State or some political subdivision thereof ...”
There are some caveats to those provisions, of course, but the intent of the language is pretty straightforward: Taxpayer money for education must be used for state-run, nonsectarian schools.
