Analysis: The Florida Department of Education announced on Friday that Richard Corcoran, the outgoing commissioner of education, approved an initial adoption list of instructional materials for math, but 41 percent of the submitted textbooks were rejected.
“No, this is not 1963,” state Sen. Shevrin D. “Shev” Jones DeSantis has been leading the charge in Florida to restrict what teachers can say and discuss in class on topics including race, racism, gender and history. He recently signed legislation that bans classroom discussion on LGBTQ issues from kindergarten through third grade and, for all students, says any such discussion must be “age appropriate or developmentally appropriate.
“Stop Woke Act” that codifies his executive order but also goes further, affecting not only what happens in schools but also the labor practices of private companies by restricting how they can promote diversity, equity and inclusion. Critical race theory is an academic framework taught largely in law schools that sets a framework for examining systemic racism. Conservatives have accused K-12 public schools of using it — even though they don’t — in an attempt to restrict classroom conversations on the racist history and present of the United States.
Florida’s Education Department also mentioned that some of the textbooks were linked to Common Core, a reference to the Common Core State Standards that Florida and most other states adopted more than a dozen years ago. The standards have since been replaced in a number of states, including Florida, which has seen a succession of different content standards over the past dozen years.
The BEST standards were adopted two years ago, when even Jacob Oliva, who is Florida’s chancellor for the Education Department’s Division of Public Schools, acknowledged that some of the new standards were similar to Common Core. Corcoran said that wasn’t true.
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