Column: How Gov. Ron DeSantis bullied the College Board over Black studies — and why he was wrong
1 year, 11 months ago

Column: How Gov. Ron DeSantis bullied the College Board over Black studies — and why he was wrong

LA Times  

Ron DeSantis before signing the “Stop Woke Act” in April. After reviewing the College Board’s draft curriculum for its new Advanced Placement course in African American studies, Florida Gov. On Wednesday, less than two weeks later, the College Board came out with a revised plan, omitting or downgrading some of the more controversial pieces of the curriculum, including sections on reparations, the Black Lives Matter movement, incarceration and “Black Queer Studies.” All this has caused great uproar. We don’t want grandstanding Republican politicians with no expertise in Black studies pandering to their constituents’ prejudices and forcing their politicized versions of events on educators and students. We shouldn’t teach Americans to “hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but rather villains.” That seems to be the DeSantis playbook as well: We shouldn’t teach about past discrimination in a way that might potentially make students “feel guilty.” That’s an idiotic way to look at American history.

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New College of Florida trashed hundreds of books — including many focusing on LGBTQ and race issues
4 months, 4 weeks ago

New College of Florida trashed hundreds of books — including many focusing on LGBTQ and race issues

The Independent  

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Georgia superintendent says Black studies course can be taught after legal opinion
5 months, 1 week ago

Georgia superintendent says Black studies course can be taught after legal opinion

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Georgia’s Superintendent of Schools Richard …

Georgia superintendent says Black studies course can be taught after legal opinion
5 months, 1 week ago

Georgia superintendent says Black studies course can be taught after legal opinion

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia’s Superintendent of Schools Richard Woods now says school districts may teach a new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies after all, now that Georgia’s attorney general said the state’s law against teaching divisive racial concepts specifically exempts such college-level courses. “In compliance with this opinion, the AP African American Studies course will be added to the …

Georgia superintendent says Black studies course breaks law against divisive racial teachings
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Georgia superintendent says Black studies course breaks law against divisive racial teachings

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia’s state superintendent of schools said Wednesday that he believes a new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies violates the state’s law against teaching divisive racial concepts, explaining that is why he won’t recommend it become an approved state course. More confoundingly, Woods has been saying that districts could teach the AP material and get state money …

Florida education panel decides former teacher who supported Black Lives Matter can reapply for her teaching license
7 months ago

Florida education panel decides former teacher who supported Black Lives Matter can reapply for her teaching license

CNN  

CNN — A former Jacksonville, Florida, teacher who said she was fired for displaying a Black Lives Matter flag outside her high school classroom will be able to reapply for her teaching license, an attorney representing the teacher confirmed to CNN. “You can stand up to a system that’s been attacking teachers and prevail.” Thursday’s hearing was prompted by administrative …

At Florida’s only public HBCU, students are wary of political influence on race education
1 year ago

At Florida’s only public HBCU, students are wary of political influence on race education

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A core mission of Florida A&M University from its founding over a century ago has been to educate African Americans. At Florida’s only public historically Black university, some students now fear political constraints might get in the way of teaching parts of their history. “This has basically been used as a veneer to impose an ideological agenda, …

How Ron DeSantis used Florida schools to become a culture warrior
1 year, 4 months ago

How Ron DeSantis used Florida schools to become a culture warrior

Associated Press  

Ron DeSantis ’ path to national prominence started in Florida’s classrooms, where he harnessed culture war passions and deployed them in education policies. “I can tell you this, I have only begun to fight.” FROM CRITICAL RACE THEORY TO MATH A major theme of DeSantis’ tenure has been a pledge to banish critical race theory from classrooms, following the lead …

Protesters march through Miami to object to Florida’s Black history teaching standards
1 year, 4 months ago

Protesters march through Miami to object to Florida’s Black history teaching standards

Associated Press  

MIAMI — Dozens of teachers, students and labor leaders marched to a Miami school district headquarters Wednesday to protest Florida’s new standards for teaching Black history, which have come under intense criticism for what they say about slavery. The protesters who marched to the School Board of Miami-Dade County objected to new curriculum standards that, among other things, require teachers …

Protesters march through Miami to object to Florida’s Black history teaching standards
1 year, 5 months ago

Protesters march through Miami to object to Florida’s Black history teaching standards

LA Times  

Dozens of teachers, students and labor leaders marched to a Miami school district headquarters Wednesday to protest Florida’s new standards for teaching Black history, which have come under intense criticism for what they say about slavery. The protesters who marched to the School Board of Miami-Dade County objected to new curriculum standards that, among other things, require teachers to instruct …

Whitewashing slavery in US schools will teach students anti-Blackness
1 year, 5 months ago

Whitewashing slavery in US schools will teach students anti-Blackness

Al Jazeera  

At a press event in Utah on July 21, GOP presidential contender and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis attempted to find the silver lining of American chattel slavery. DeSantis made these utterings while defending the Florida State Board of Education’s new standards for teaching African American history in public schools, which downplay and whitewash the enslavement of Africans in the Americas. …

Florida education commissioner skips forum on criticized Black history standards
1 year, 5 months ago

Florida education commissioner skips forum on criticized Black history standards

LA Times  

Leaders of a forum on Florida’s new standards for teaching Black history encouraged parents to let their discontent be heard by showing up at local school board meetings, sending feedback to the state’s Department of Education and voting. Hundreds of lawmakers, teachers and parents crowded into Antioch Baptist Church in Miami Gardens on Thursday night to discuss the new policy, …

Column: This is how to beat DeSantis in the endless, racist culture war over Black history
1 year, 5 months ago

Column: This is how to beat DeSantis in the endless, racist culture war over Black history

LA Times  

Tolani Britton and Travis Bristol, a husband-and-wife team of associate professors of education at UC Berkeley, possess the sort of pragmatism that I wish I had in these trying times. It’s a crusade that has only intensified in recent weeks with Florida, first, rejecting an Advanced Placement course on Black history for being too “woke” and, as such, lacking “educational …

Scholar who drafted Florida's slavery teaching standards once implicated in alleged kidnapping
1 year, 5 months ago

Scholar who drafted Florida's slavery teaching standards once implicated in alleged kidnapping

Raw Story  

Ron DeSantis has defended his state's new educational standards teaching that Black people learned valuable skills from slavery by saying that it was created by a work group of respectable Black scholars. Another controversial member of the work group is National Black Republican Association chair Francis Presley Rice, who has promoted propaganda falsely claiming Martin Luther King was a Republican, …

DeSantis Faces Backlash from Republican Senator Scott over Black American History Curriculum
1 year, 5 months ago

DeSantis Faces Backlash from Republican Senator Scott over Black American History Curriculum

News 18  

Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s woes following his state’s adoption of new standards on the teaching of Black American history continues to pile up and possibly impacting his campaign. The recent criticism of the new education policy came from fellow presidential candidate and member of the Republican party, South Carolina senator Tim Scott. Florida’s teachers have been instructed to teach middle-school …

Black lawmakers press Justice and Education Departments to investigate Florida’s race curriculum
1 year, 5 months ago

Black lawmakers press Justice and Education Departments to investigate Florida’s race curriculum

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Congressional Black Caucus is pushing the White House, Justice Department and the Department of Education to adopt an “aggressive legal strategy” to scrutinize recent changes to Florida’s Black history curriculum. The caucus wants the federal agencies to examine whether Florida school districts are violating federal discrimination law following changes to the curriculum in the state — from …

DeSantis is defending new slavery teachings. Civil rights leaders see a pattern of ‘policy violence’
1 year, 5 months ago

DeSantis is defending new slavery teachings. Civil rights leaders see a pattern of ‘policy violence’

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Civil rights activists cheered when Ron DeSantis pardoned four Black men wrongfully convicted of rape as one of his first actions as Florida’s governor. Specifically, Florida’s teachers are now required to instruct middle-school students that enslaved people “developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” DeSantis has repeatedly defended the new language …

House Dems slam 'racist tropes' in new Florida K-12 history curriculum
1 year, 5 months ago

House Dems slam 'racist tropes' in new Florida K-12 history curriculum

Raw Story  

Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost led the letter against "bigoted teaching standards in Florida that want kids to learn that Black people received 'benefits' from being enslaved." Four Black Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday joined the growing chorus of critics opposing "racist tropes" in Florida's new K-12 history curriculum, which includes teaching middle school students "the resurrection …

Opinion: Florida’s censorship of ‘diversity’ efforts are a tantrum born of white guilt
1 year, 7 months ago

Opinion: Florida’s censorship of ‘diversity’ efforts are a tantrum born of white guilt

LA Times  

In our country, privilege for one often means oppression for another. In a landscape of deepening racial responsibility, the embrace of terms such as “equity” and “inclusion” alongside diversity pushes past demographic representation or positive workplace and classroom dynamics, compelling us all to ask: What have people of color been denied that white people have received? For a moment Americans …

‘Florida is openly hostile toward people of colour’: Civil rights group issues travel advisory in US state
1 year, 7 months ago

‘Florida is openly hostile toward people of colour’: Civil rights group issues travel advisory in US state

Firstpost  

The south-eastern US state of Florida is a popular tourist destination for most Americans but some civil rights groups now think that the place has become “hostile for black individuals”. The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, a civil rights group, has issued a travel advisory warning people not to travel to Florida because of the promulgation of …

DeSantis bans funding for Florida college diversity programmes
1 year, 8 months ago

DeSantis bans funding for Florida college diversity programmes

Al Jazeera  

Ron DeSantis, Florida governor and likely US presidential candidate, says programmes aim to impose an ‘ideological agenda’. Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill to block federal and state funding to programmes that aim to ensure diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities, boosting a conservative push against such initiatives. DeSantis approved the measure on Monday, decrying DEI …

Changes planned for College Board’s Black history class
1 year, 8 months ago

Changes planned for College Board’s Black history class

Associated Press  

The College Board is revamping its Advanced Placement African American studies course again, vowing to give students an “unflinching encounter with the facts” following criticism that it watered down curriculum on slavery reparations and the Black Lives Matter movement after pressure from conservative politicians. David Johns, executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, said he interpreted the College Board’s …

Black history class to undergo changes, College Board says
1 year, 8 months ago

Black history class to undergo changes, College Board says

Associated Press  

The College Board says changes will be made to its new AP African American studies course, after critics said the agency bowed to political pressure and removed several topics from the framework, including Black Lives Matter, slavery reparations and queer life. In a statement on Monday, the College Board said the development committee and experts charged with authoring the Advanced …

DeSantis bills on diversity, gender pass Florida committees
1 year, 10 months ago

DeSantis bills on diversity, gender pass Florida committees

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Republicans on Monday advanced two key initiatives of Gov. “Florida students will receive an education, not a political indoctrination.” The proposal would bar colleges from using state or federal funding for diversity, equity and inclusion programs. It would prevent schools from having course curricula involving Critical Race Theory or so-called radical feminist theory, radical gender theory, …

Ron DeSantis Is On A Mission To Make Florida Dumb, And It's Spreading
1 year, 10 months ago

Ron DeSantis Is On A Mission To Make Florida Dumb, And It's Spreading

Huff Post  

During a recent press conference, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that his state would be blocking a new Advanced Placement course on African American studies over its inclusion of “queer theory” and ideology related to prison abolition, claiming that doing so would spare children from “a political agenda.” “We believe in teaching kids facts and how to think, but we …

Sharpton to DeSantis: Stop censoring Black history
1 year, 11 months ago

Sharpton to DeSantis: Stop censoring Black history

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Rev. Not to not only know how bad you were, but to know how strong they are,” Sharpton told the crowd, adding, “If you would study history, governor, you would have known to mess with us and education always ends in your defeat.” Ahead of an expected White House run, DeSantis has continued to focus on …

Essential Politics: Ron DeSantis versus the College Board
1 year, 11 months ago

Essential Politics: Ron DeSantis versus the College Board

LA Times  

Ron DeSantis’ administration has blocked a new Advanced Placement course on African-American studies from being taught in high schools. Ron DeSantis, a potential candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is threatening to cut his state’s ties with the College Board, the organization that develops Advanced Placement classes for college-bound high school students. Next, DeSantis and Florida conservatives turned their …

Murphy says New Jersey will expand AP Black history classes
1 year, 11 months ago

Murphy says New Jersey will expand AP Black history classes

Associated Press  

TRENTON, N.J. — Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy said Tuesday that his administration is expanding Advanced Placement African American Studies courses next year from one school to 26 in New Jersey after Republican Gov. Murphy cited Florida as he unveiled the course expansion Tuesday during a visit to a Newark high school alongside state education officials and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, …

Opinion: Three little letters that have Florida’s Ron DeSantis on the attack
1 year, 11 months ago

Opinion: Three little letters that have Florida’s Ron DeSantis on the attack

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Khalil Gibran Muhammad is the Ford Foundation professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School and director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project, or IARA. Khalil Gibran Muhammad Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project at Harvard Kennedy School Erica Licht Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project at Harvard Kennedy School Now DeSantis is going a step …

Group asks how African American course violates Florida law
1 year, 11 months ago

Group asks how African American course violates Florida law

The Independent  

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Celebrates Black History Month In The Worst Way
1 year, 11 months ago

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Celebrates Black History Month In The Worst Way

Huff Post  

Illustration:Jianan Liu/HuffPost Photo:Getty Images If a middle school student at a public school in Sarasota County, Florida, wants to read “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You” by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, one of their parents will have to be notified first. “Happy Black History Month — now let’s ban a book that says racism is wrong!” Tallulah Brand, a …

Florida is officially a laboratory for fascism in America
1 year, 11 months ago

Florida is officially a laboratory for fascism in America

Raw Story  

Ron DeSantis is not a "mini-Trump" or some other diminutive. As part of his authoritarian project, DeSantis is enforcing thought crime laws that forbid the teaching of AP African-American studies in high school and other courses and programs across Florida's school system that examine questions of power, race and systemic inequality. DeSantis and his agents recently declared that the AP …

Black history class revised by College Board amid criticism
1 year, 11 months ago

Black history class revised by College Board amid criticism

Associated Press  

— High school senior Kahlila Bandele is used to courses that don’t address the African American experience. In her AP European History course, she said, “we’re not discussing Black people at all” — even though they were colonized by Europeans. College Board officials said developers consulted with professors from more than 200 colleges, including several historically Black institutions, and took …

DeSantis pushes ban on diversity programs in state colleges
1 year, 11 months ago

DeSantis pushes ban on diversity programs in state colleges

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday announced plans to block state colleges from having programs on diversity, equity and inclusion, and critical race theory in his latest step onto the front lines of the nation’s culture wars. “I think people want to see true academics and they want to get rid of some of the political window …

Black history AP class rejected in Florida catches on
1 year, 11 months ago

Black history AP class rejected in Florida catches on

The Independent  

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Black history class revised in US after criticism from right
1 year, 11 months ago

Black history class revised in US after criticism from right

Al Jazeera  

The official curriculum for a new high school course on African American studies downplays some components that drew criticism from conservatives in the United States, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who had threatened to ban the class in his state. The College Board, which oversees the AP programme, said the course’s developers consulted with professors from more than 200 colleges, …

Column: Caving to the right on Black history, the College Board gives a course in cowardice
1 year, 11 months ago

Column: Caving to the right on Black history, the College Board gives a course in cowardice

LA Times  

Ron DeSantis: Do you want him dictating what your kids can learn in school? The College Board called the course “an unflinching encounter with the facts and evidence of African American history and culture.” No states or districts have seen the official framework that is released, much less provided feedback on it. — College Board The final curriculum appears suspiciously …

Florida governor backs ban on diversity lessons in state colleges
1 year, 11 months ago

Florida governor backs ban on diversity lessons in state colleges

Al Jazeera  

Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida in the southeast United States, has announced plans to block state colleges from having programmes on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as critical race theory. DeSantis, a potential 2024 Republican presidential candidate, has heavily criticised critical race theory, which examines systemic racism, along with programmes about diversity, equity and inclusion, commonly known as …

Critics say Florida aims to rewrite history by rejecting African American studies
1 year, 11 months ago

Critics say Florida aims to rewrite history by rejecting African American studies

NPR  

Critics say Florida aims to rewrite history by rejecting African American studies Enlarge this image toggle caption Lynne Sladky/AP Lynne Sladky/AP Florida's department of education, under the leadership of Republican Gov. DeSantis has been using Black students as political pawns in his quest to build power and conservative outrage, and the Florida State Board of Education has long enabled him," …

Ron DeSantis seeks control over national curriculum
1 year, 11 months ago

Ron DeSantis seeks control over national curriculum

Salon  

As I explained for the Editorial Board, CRT is a sociolegal framework to analyze ways in which our legal system perpetuates racism. Not satisfied with controlling k-12 education, many Republicans are now seeking to make the public university system an arm of government control in order to outlaw CRT as well as violate trans people's rights. Understanding, not belief While …

Ron DeSantis Threatened With Legal Action Over AP African American Studies Ban
1 year, 11 months ago

Ron DeSantis Threatened With Legal Action Over AP African American Studies Ban

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Three Florida high school students are threatening to sue Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state of Florida over a recently announced statewide ban on a new Advanced Placement course on African American history. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat via Associated Press “If he does not negotiate with the College Board to allow African American studies to be taught …

High schoolers threaten to sue DeSantis over ban of African American studies course
1 year, 11 months ago

High schoolers threaten to sue DeSantis over ban of African American studies course

NPR  

High schoolers threaten to sue DeSantis over ban of African American studies course Enlarge this image toggle caption Octavio Jones/Getty Images Octavio Jones/Getty Images Three Florida high school students are poised to sue Florida Gov. "By rejecting the African American history pilot program, Ron DeSantis has clearly demonstrated that he wants to dictate whose history does — and doesn't — …

DeSantis calls Black history course ‘indoctrination.’ What do the authors Florida criticized say?
1 year, 11 months ago

DeSantis calls Black history course ‘indoctrination.’ What do the authors Florida criticized say?

LA Times  

Ron DeSantis said his administration rejected the College Board’s Advanced Placement African American Studies course because “we want education, not indoctrination.” Florida Gov. DeSantis said his administration rejected the College Board’s Advanced Placement African American Studies course because “we want education, not indoctrination.” It was revealed last week that the Florida Department of Education recently told the College Board it …

Florida’s rejection of Black history course stirs debate
1 year, 11 months ago

Florida’s rejection of Black history course stirs debate

Associated Press  

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida Gov. DeSantis said his administration rejected the College Board’s Advanced Placement African American Studies course because “we want education, not indoctrination.” It was revealed last week that the Florida Department of Education recently told the College Board it would bar the course unless changes are made. The state then issued a chart late Friday that …

Florida's rejection of Black history course stirs debate
1 year, 11 months ago

Florida's rejection of Black history course stirs debate

The Independent  

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Ron DeSantis says African American history course was banned because of content about prisons and ‘queer’ theory
1 year, 11 months ago

Ron DeSantis says African American history course was banned because of content about prisons and ‘queer’ theory

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DeSantis lambasted for ‘authoritarian’ ban on African American studies course in Florida high schools
1 year, 11 months ago

DeSantis lambasted for ‘authoritarian’ ban on African American studies course in Florida high schools

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Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Education officials said the advanced placement, or AP, course – which allows high school …

Florida blocks high school African American studies class
1 year, 11 months ago

Florida blocks high school African American studies class

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has blocked a new Advanced Placement course on African American studies from being taught in high schools, saying it violates state law and is historically inaccurate. Florida education officials did not specify exactly what content the state found objectionable but said, “As presented, the content of this course is inexplicably contrary to …

Florida teachers move to block DeSantis questions on CRT
2 years ago

Florida teachers move to block DeSantis questions on CRT

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A group of Florida college professors on Wednesday asked a federal judge to block Gov. Ron DeSantis from requesting spending data on diversity, equity and inclusion and critical race theory programs in state universities. The Republican governor in late December requested that state colleges submit spending data and other information on programs related to diversity, equity and …

Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law and ‘critical race theory’ ban are in effect. Teachers brace for ‘straight-up indoctrination’
2 years, 6 months ago

Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law and ‘critical race theory’ ban are in effect. Teachers brace for ‘straight-up indoctrination’

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