State Superintendent of Public Instruction Lisa Coons is no longer with the Virginia Department of Education as of Friday afternoon.
Emily Anne Gullickson, the chief deputy secretary of education, will serve as acting state superintendent in the interim.
Coons’ resignation comes as the department has missed several deadlines for sending reports to the state legislature, has yet to publish teaching materials for the new history standards that the department promised to teachers last July, and as the department has hemorrhaged longtime staffers since Coons’ arrival two years ago.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
