Building a bigger table for improving education

Building a bigger table for improving education

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela My heart was full at the recent appointment of Jeffery O. Smith as Virginia’s secretary of education. He had an impressive career journey after graduating in 1990 from Virginia Union University, a small historically Black college in Richmond, to overseeing the Virginia Department of Education and the entire scope of education in Virginia — from pre-K …