Youngkin Education Nominee Has Ties To Group Pushing Left-Wing DEI Agenda

While Glenn Youngkin rode the Critical Race Theory (CRT) backlash wave to the Virginia governorship, a Daily Wire review of his new education nominee’s background raises questions about the Republican’s commitment to eradicating politics from the classroom.

Aimee Rogstad Guidera, who was nominated by Youngkin on Monday to be secretary of education, is an education consultant — the president of Guidera Strategy. According to public records, in recent years Guidera has owned a home and operated her business out of the Minneapolis, Minnesota area. The area includes some of America’s most “woke” school districts, and many radical ideas that have recently taken foot across the country originally germinated there.

She previously founded a group called Data Quality Campaign (DQC). Guidera led the group for more than a decade, until 2018. Yet there is evidence that DQC, which has taken in about $26 million from the left-leaning Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as first reported by the Daily Caller, may be pushing the equity agenda the Republican has opposed.

There is a page on DQC’s website dedicated to the idea of “Data for Equity.” The organization seeks to “collect, disaggregate, and share data above and beyond reported mandates” and “engage diverse and representative populations” in order to “ensure that individuals have access to equitable opportunities that lead to success in education and beyond.”