Inside GovRonDeSantis's war with the College Board over AP African American studies
"You cannot exterminate us, you cannot exterminate our culture, and you can never exterminate the value our children [have] to this world," Crump said at the press conference.
The College Board's preliminary course framework, dated February 2022, outlines a number of topics that the course would cover, including the African slave trade, segregation, and the civil rights movement. When the College Board unveiled the course last year, it specifically cited the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd following a struggle with a white police officer as the impetus for the creation of the course.
Florida law requires African American history to be included in K-12 education and says that such curriculum should"include the roles and contributions of individuals from all walks of life." However, the statute also says that"classroom instruction and curriculum may not be used to indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view" inconsistent with state standards.
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