Ron DeSantis and Tim Scott, fighting to become the leading Republican alternative to Donald Trump, have clashed in recent days over Florida’s educational standards.
Tag: Education (K-12)
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Florida’s New Black History Standards Have Drawn Backlash. Who Wrote Them?
In updating the standards to comply with a new law that limits how racism can be taught, officials largely bypassed the state’s African American History Task Force.
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Ron DeSantis Wants to Tell the Future by Controlling the Past
The history we teach to students in the present is as much about the country we hope to be as it is a record of the country we once were.
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Avoided Then, Absent Now, Gilgo Beach Suspect Overshadows School Reunion
Classmates in Massapequa Park described him as awkward, solitary, and volatile. Though few knew him well, his presence pervaded a Berner High School reunion.
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Black History Is a Casualty in Ron DeSantis’s Christian Nationalist Quest
Florida’s distortion of the history of slavery is more consequential than many comprehend.