Loudoun superintendent pushes back after Va. delegate slams LGBTQ+ history acknowledgment

By: Nathaniel Cline

Outlets: Virginia Mercury

Published: October 14, 2026

Words: 555

Last Updated: 3 days, 23 hours ago

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Loudoun County Schools Superintendent Aaron Spence defended his school board’s recent LGBTQ+ History Month proclamation, after Republican Del. Tim Griffin, R-Bedford, called the board’s decision “despicable” on social media and suggested the school system influences students’ sexual identities.

Spence joined the division in 2023 and has led the state’s third-largest school division through a series of federal investigations and disputes over transgender students’ access to school facilities, parental concerns and …

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