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Elementary and middle school students arent required to learn about African American history past Reconstruction, critics say.

The Florida Board of Education approved a new curriculum for African American history for kindergarten through 12th grades, despite criticism over the omission of "key historical facts about the Black experience."

Significant changes are part of the African American history standards the State Board of Education approved at a Wednesday meeting.

Florida’s Board of Education has passed new guidelines on teaching Black history in schools.

The Florida State Board of Education enacted new regulations on Wednesday that its detractors claim water down the importance of Black […] The post Florida will teach its students that slavery benefited Black people appeared first on TheGrio.

The Florida Board of Education has approved a controversial new curriculum for African American history.

The Florida Department of Education approved several new rules on Wednesday that are aimed at how Black history is taught and bathrooms.

The Florida State Board of Education has approved new guidelines, which will teach students that Black people benefited from slavery.

Florida approved new standards for African American history Wednesday that state officials called “robust” and claimed address “the darkest part of our history,” but critics said they will leave public school students with a whitewashed version that does not deal with the “ugliness of what has happened to Black people” nor focus much on the last 150 years. The State Board of Education adopted ...

In a letter to board member Ben Gibson, a group of 11 organizations, including the NAACP and the Florida Education Association, criticized the state for omitting or rewriting “key historical facts about the Black experience.”