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Banning Critical Race Theory

WakeForestRanger said:
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I believe Houston is no longer in control of its own school district - the GOP-dominated TX state legislature just stepped in and took it over recently. They replaced the elected school board with state-appointed (GOP) managers and superintendent. Turning libraries at low-performing schools into detention centers is thus right on point. I'm sure that Chris Rufo is thrilled. Maybe they will build new for-profit prisons next door to these schools so they can just shuttle kids straight into them.
 
The Florida Board of Education tells Florida school district superintendents that their schools can teach AP Psychology only if they take all teaching of "foundational content on sexual orientation and gender identity" out of the course curriculum. In response, the College Board has announced that it will not accommodate this request and so AP Psychology is now effectively banned from Florida high schools, along with AP African American Studies. I wonder how long it will be before conservatives try to create their own AP-type courses with right-wing information for schools to teach. I'm sure that PragerU and Hillsdale College would be glad to help create such courses.

Link: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2023/08/03/ap-psychology-banned-florida/70522744007/
 
Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz tells Florida school officials that the AP Psychology course may be taught "in its entirety". In a letter to school officials he wrote "The department believes AP Psychology can be taught in its entirety in a manner that is age and developmentally appropriate and the course remains listed in our course catalog...College Board has suggested that it might withhold the 'AP' designation from this course in Florida, ultimately hurting Florida students. This is especially concerning given that the new school year begins in a week."

Looks like this time it was the Florida Board of Education that backed down, not the College Board. They stuck to their guns and this time it seems to have paid off.

Link: https://www.yahoo.com/gma/florida-officials-tell-state-schools-232837484.html
 
The College Board is basically a franchise that depends on schools as franchisees. This was like Florida demanding McDonald’s in the state stop serving cheese on their burgers.
 
How many prominent Manny Diaz's do they have out of FL ?
 
Puerto Rican though.
 
birdman said:
In a small and local effort to undermine the statewide education policy, our local school board voted yesterday to require that teachers notify parents if they plan to use Prager U videos as instructional material in class.
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#parentalrights

An opt-out form went local viral a few weeks ago. Not sure if it's legit though.
 
So…basically an admission that the founding fathers valued their collective freedom from Britain over basic human rights and freedom of humans beings experiencing the horrors of chattel slavery…?

Ok.
 
arktimes.com

Arkansas education department nixes AP African American Studies course at last minute

Documentation confirming the course would not be recognized by the state arrived roughly 48 hours before the first bell of the school year was set to ring.
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The College Board, which designs and administers AP exams, is currently piloting AP African American Studies at select U.S. high schools. Sixty schools around the country, including Central High in Little Rock and The Academies at Jonesboro High School, piloted the course last year. For the coming school year, the pilot program will expand to hundreds of schools, and students will test for college credit in the course for the first time in spring 2024.

Teachers at schools including Central High, North Little Rock High School, the North Little Rock Center for Excellence charter high school and Jacksonville High School prepared over the summer to offer the course in the upcoming school year. At least some of these teachers were at school prepping their classrooms and meeting with students and parents when they got the news from the state.
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Good thing no important Black history happened in Little Rock, particularly at Central High.
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It's literally the people who chanted “Two, four, six, eight, we ain't gonna integrate" at the Little Rock Nine and their descendants trying to stop kids from learning they chanted “Two, four, six, eight, we ain't gonna integrate" at the Little Rock Nine.
 
The DeSantis/GOP takeover of the (once) progressive New College in Florida apparently isn't going so well. Large numbers of faculty have quit or been let go, leading to required classes and entire majors being cancelled only two weeks before classes start, and despite the efforts of the new DeSantis-appointed conservative trustees, like Chris Rufo, to recruit new conservative professors very few professors are applying to work there (gee, I wonder why?), and those who do often don't meet the new right-wing ideology requirements for new faculty. There's also a severe housing shortage, as to increase the enrollment the conservative trustees are taking in large numbers of student athletes on the promise that they would beef up the college's athletic programs. For example, the school accepted 70 baseball players for the coming year (the University of Florida has 37). According to the Insider Higher Ed article the school is in "chaos."

 
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