Frustration over the restrictions that teachers face pushed Renee O'Connor to take a sabbatical last year from her job teaching Black history at Miami Norland Senior High School in the majority-Black city of Miami Gardens. Now, she is back in the classroom, but s...
Black history education battle in Florida The Florida Board of Education is facing backlash after new standards for teaching Black history were announced, including the suggestion that some benefited from slavery. July 22, 2023 Additional Live Streams Live ABC News Live Live Outside Gemelli Hospital ...
Two members of the work group that established the standards said in a statement to CBS News that they "proudly stand behind" the language of the lessons, saying that the curriculum provides "comprehensive and rigorous instruction on African American History." Florida Governor Ron DeSanti...
Her remarks joined a chorus of criticism in response to theFlorida Board of Education’s new standards for teaching Black historyin public schools. The 216-page document, approved last Wednesday, details Black history lessons that selectively omit or obscure facts about Amer...
More broadly, DeSantis has supported attempts in Florida to limit the teaching of African American history and systemic racism in public schools, along with discussion of LGBTQ+ issues. The College Board has pushed back against the new test, criticizing as flawed a stud...
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For me, that choice was becoming a substitute teacher during the 2003-2004 school year. I was a graduate student working on an MA in Religious Studies at the University of South Florida, and I needed some extra money to make ends meet. I had already been teaching as a graduate assistant...
“The state of Florida education standards not only don’t prevent, but they require teaching Black history,” DeSantis said last week. “All the important things, that’s part of our core curriculum.” Indeed, Florida has required its schools to teach African American history since 1994, lon...
“(We) will not modify our courses to accommodate restrictions on teaching essential, college-level topics. Doing so would break the fundamental promise of AP: colleges wouldn’t broadly accept that course for credit and that course wouldn’t prepare students for careers in the discipline,” the...