Virginia Military Institute superintendent resigns amid call for racism investigation - NBC News

Binford Peay III’s resignation "with deep regret," board President John William Boland said in a statement.

Ralph Northam, a VMI graduate, and other top Democratic elected officials sent a letter to the public school’s board a week ago announcing an investigation into its culture, policies, practices and equity in disciplinary procedures.

Boland’s statement Monday said the board would “immediately” turn its attention to the search for a new superintendent.

A school spokesman said Peay was not granting interview requests

"Change is overdue at VMI, and the Board of Visitors bears a deep responsibility to embrace it," Northam’s spokeswoman, Alena Yarmosky, said in a statement

Yarmosky said Northam “wishes General Peay well and is grateful for his decades of public service.”