After Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin was swept into office last year over fevered concerns around issues like critical race theory in Virginia's public schools, some residents of the commonwealth feared the worst. This week, some believed those fears were realized. After completion of proposed social studies guidelines with extensive public input over the summer, the Virginia Department of Education released a substantially revised, shorter version of the document this week that was missing a large portion of the content discussed over the summer. The 53-page document—significantly reduced from the more than 400-page version produced this summer after two years of...