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Toward the end of a news conference, DeSantis spoke on the College Board and the future of AP courses.

Advanced Placement classes and Pell grant-funded college classesare two ways that bright, low-income high school students can earncollege degree credits. But AP classes are costly for the schooldistrict, may duplicate existing community resources, and can reachrelatively few low-income students while Pell grants arecost-effective, offer more course variety, and can serve a greatnumber of needy students.

<p>Historians Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Robin D.G. Kelley discuss the roots of African American Studies in civil rights activism, which makes the decision to de-emphasize contemporary movements like Black Lives Matter inexplicable and diminishes the power of the course to help students make sense of the society.</p>

The Evanston Township High School District 202 Board of Education spoke Monday about the College Board’s changes to the Advanced Placement African American Studies curriculum after Florida’s Department of Education rejected the course last month. ETHS History and Social Science teacher Kamasi Hill took part in shaping the course as part of the AP’s Development...

In this op-ed, John Thornton, a BU professor of African American studies and history, writes that the recent decision by Florida’s school administration and its Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, to ban the College Board’s Advanced Placement course on African American studies “has become one more stepping stone” in the governor’s aspirations to become president and “has little, if anything, to do with education in Florida.” He goes on to note that Florida has decided that it’s good politics to cripple students by denying them access to the full richness and complexity of Americ...