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Palm Beach County educator responds to public outrage after the Florida Board of Education approved new K-12 curriculum guidelines for instruction on Black history, with critics decrying the policy as racist and revisionist.
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A statewide coalition of faith leaders has pledged to teach African American history, after the uproar over Florida’s new African American history standards.
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U.S. Sen. Tim Scott suggested Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis might "regret" supporting standards requiring teachers to instruct middle school students that slaves developed skills that "could be applied for their personal benefit."
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DeSantis is defending new slavery teachings. Civil rights leaders see a pattern of 'policy violence'Civil rights activists cheered when Ron DeSantis pardoned four Black men wrongfully convicted of rape as one of his first actions as Florida’s new governor. But four years later, Black leaders decry what they call a pattern of “policy violence” against people of color imposed by the DeSantis administration.
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The middle school standards approved by the Florida state education board say students should learn about "skills" learned by slaves that could be "applied for their personal benefit." Several historians who have studied slavery cast doubt on this lesson’s educational value.
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Alpha Phi Alpha says it's moving its 119th anniversary convention from Orlando due to, “Governor Ron DeSantis’ harmful, racist, and insensitive policies against Black communities.”
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COMMENTARY Florida's ham-handed and offensive new slavery education agenda puts it at the head of a centuries-long effort to whitewash the New World's original sin.
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Branhilda Richardson-Knowles Memorial Park and Attucks High School are two of the historic locations in the new interactive map. As the state restricts how public school teachers can discuss Black history in the classroom, WLRN toured some of the sites with the team behind the Threads app.
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We want to hear from parents, teachers and students to gauge how South Floridians feel about the state's new rules on teaching Black history.
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Vice President Kamala Harris will swipe at new standards for teaching Black history in Florida during a trip to Jacksonville.
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The State Board of Education on Wednesday approved new academic standards for instruction about African American history, after numerous teachers from across Florida objected to the changes and asked the board to put the proposal on hold.
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Florida has adopted new African American History and Social Students standards but that's not assuaging concerns the state is watering down African American history. Disagreement remains over what should and shouldn’t be included.