Outcry Grows After DeSantis Rejects AP African-American Studies Course

’s Department of Education has rejected a request from the College Board—which runs the SAT and approves advanced placement courses for high schools across the country— to approve a high school African-American Studies course in Florida on the grounds that it violates state law, according to a copy of the letter provided to The Daily Beast.

The College Board, for its part, said revising the curriculum is par-for-the-course and remained tight-lipped about whether it expected the class to be offered in Florida classrooms. “It means an insult to me, it means an injury to me.” said Dr. Marvin Dunn, former professor of psychology at Florida International University and a specialist in the state’s Black history. “ Florida is doing its best to shut down discussions about race, slavery, anything having to do with a challenge to the idea that racism is still a real factor in American life today.”

While details of the African-American studies course haven’t been publicly released, last August Florida educator Marlon Williams-Clark told NPR that the first weeks of his pilot program classroom in Tallahassee focused on the birth of the subject and the many backgrounds and cultures that make up Black identity in the United States.

MaryWebb7 Ron DeSantis knows his base.

They didn’t give a single example of what they thought was objectionable. Perhaps if we knew what they rejected it could provide some sort of clarity, but if they don’t say we must assume it was because they don’t want to teach about black history in general.

Good for them

FL DOE is rejecting American Studies, what’s next?

...because history books are dangerous in an authoritarian society.

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