ASHBURN, Va.—Less than two weeks after his election victory, Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin renewed a pledge to remove the controversial critical race theory (CRT) from the state’s schools. “I am going to be the education governor; this is going to happen,” Youngkin said at a thank-you rally held outside Loudoun County Public Schools administration building in Ashburn, Virginia, on Nov. 13. Five months earlier, the then-candidate stood at the same place to announce that he would ban CRT from Virginia schools on day one if elected. From that point, education would become his main campaign theme. Youngkin is set to be the state’s first Republican governor in nine years, while the GOP also took control of Virginia’s House of Delegates. Youngkin’s victory marked a shift away from the state’s blue-leaning voting trends; Virginia hasn’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 2004. In recent years, northern Virginia has also been …