The nonprofit is dueling with the DeSantis administration over a new AP course on African American studies.
Last week, Florida’s Education Department released a timeline suggesting it had been privately protesting to the College Board for months about the class. The state agency said it was “grateful” that the nonprofit made some alterations to the course but that it wanted more information before it could grant approval.But the College Board on Saturday insisted that the communications with the state were merely “transactional emails.
“We had no negotiations about the content of this course with Florida or any other state, nor did we receive any requests, suggestions, or feedback,” the College Board statement said. The College Board also said that when Florida notified the nonprofit of its rejection of the course, its officials called the state seeking an explanation.
The College Board said these phone calls with the Florida Department of Education “were absent of substance.” The nonprofit added: “In the discussion, they did not offer feedback but instead asked vague, uninformed questions like, ‘What does the word “intersectionality” mean?’ and ‘Does the course promote Black Panther thinking?’”
This academic year, only five schools in four Florida school districts offered the pilot AP course in Black studies. When it became public in January that the state was not going to authorize the new class, a district with two schools offering the course ended it.
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