EDUCATION ISSUES--"EQUITY---FAIRFAX--VIRGINIA LT. GOV. CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION INTO NATIONAL MERIT AWARD SCANDAL

Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears asked Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares to investigate one of the state's top high schools for not informing students that they had qualified for a national award until after important deadlines, a failure critics are attributing to the school leaders' ideology.   "This is reprehensible," the lieutenant governor wrote on Twitter Friday. "I have reached out to the Governor and Attorney General and asked for an investigation." MORE AT Virginia Lt. Gov. Sears calls for investigation into national merit award scandal | Washington Examiner