Va. resident seeks answers from state education superintendent over genocide definition

By: Nathaniel Cline

Outlets: Virginia Mercury

Published: August 12, 2026

Words: 863

Last Updated: 6 days, 18 hours ago

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A Virginia resident is asking a Prince William County district court to order the state’s superintendent of public instruction to demonstrate how the Virginia Department of Education defines the term “genocide” in the state’s K-12 history curriculum.

Prince William resident Gene Sokolowski filed a FOIA lawsuit in his county district court, alleging that Superintendent of Public Instruction Jenna Conway of the Virginia Department of Education could not identify the source material supporting the definition used …

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