Appearing on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” Sears told host Maria Bartiromo that falling education standards and critical race theory have prompted the U.S. to lag behind its global equivalents. Sears said that she thinkspublic education in America has become the level of a national security crisis.
Bartiromo started the conversation by suggesting that Sears and Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) have prioritized the fight against CRT in schools.
“I know education to you changes everything as well,” Bartiromo said. “This has been a major focus for you, and yet here too, bad policy in terms of CRT and focusing on issues away from strengthening our students to make them best compete with the Chinese, with all adversaries across the world as they get older.”
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“I’m glad you stated it that way when you talk about the Chinese, the Russians, etc., because that’s what I’ve elevated our children not learning to,” Sears responded. “This is a national security crisis. When so many of our children are not learning, we’re in trouble. We need STEM education. Heavens, we need children who can just read and write. How about that? And add one plus one. We don’t have that.”
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“We are losing to the China’s [of the world], to the Russia’s, even Estonia is beating us in math,” she continued. “In science and technology, we’re losing. We need to have education up here now.” Sears urged voters across the country to push for change and make their voices heard in the 2022 midterms.
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“We’re talking about the future of America. When we talk about the future of America, we’re talking about our children and grandchildren. Elections, they’re about them. It’s about hope and the future, and we’re not getting there, and we’re not getting there very fast.”
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The Virginia Board of Education postponed public hearings on new draft of history standards which advocates say will offer a fuller and fairer picture of America's past.
State law requires standards to be updated at least every seven years. Revisions to the 2015 history and social studies standards began under former Gov. Ralph Northam, D., with input from experts on indigenous, African American, Asian American and Hispanic history, among other cultures.
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Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow assumes there are flaws in the proposed revisions that first need to be addressed.
"We’re on our way to having the best standards in the nation, and I don’t want any of us to settle for anything less," Balow said.
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For instance, Balow criticized the draft standards for the use of the word "succession" instead of "secession" and further referenced the removal of the "Father of our Country" title for George Washington and "Father of the Constitution" title for James Madison. The Department of Education has said that was an "inadvertent" error.
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