Backing Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign against critical race theory, the State Board of Education on Thursday approved a rule that places controversial guidelines on the way U.S. history is taught in public schools.
Florida educators will be prohibited from teaching history in a way that portrays the U.S. as overly racist. The state board of education also prohibited teachers from “indoctrinating” students with their political beliefs,
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Addressing the board by video on Thursday, Gov. Ron DeSantis said students should be served with fact-based curricula, not “not trying to indoctrinate them with ideology.”
It says that racism can only be taught as interpersonal, and not as a structure embedded in American laws and norms.
At its meeting in Jacksonville, the Florida State Board of Education approved a controversial rule Thursday banning teachers from indoctrinating or persuading students.
A last-minute addition to the rule made its intentions even more explicit, banning “theories that distort historical events” such as critical race theory,
The New York Times’ 1619 Project, and Holocaust denialism.