Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is amping up his battle with the College Board, now threatening to withhold state funding for all Advanced Placement programs and instead seek out other methods of college credit for students.
as alternatives that, like AP, enable students to receive college credit after passing the exam. Dual enrollment classes were also cited by DeSantis, which would allow students to take additional classes from professors at nearby colleges while enrolled in high school.“Does it have to be done by the College Board?” he asked.
DeSantis's Department of Education told the College Board in January that the course"lacks educational value" and cited several topics as"indoctrination." On Feb. 1, the College Board released its framework that it had been working on for nearly a decade. Some topics, such as critical race theory, were removed, as well as terms including"systemic marginalization" and"intersectionality.
The College Board said it should have denounced the DeSantis administration's comments at that time and said his comments were nothing more than a PR stunt with"inflated rhetoric and posturing."
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