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Education board backs controversial history guidelines Ron DeSantis. Image via Reuters. Pandemonium and protests couldn’t stop Gov.  Ron DeSantis from winning again Thursday in Jacksonville, where the Board of Education approved changes to civics education standards that are music to conservative ears. The board voted after members of the public squared off on the rule, with some saying it would whitewash history and others saying it would prevent Marxist theory from being taught in Florida classrooms. American history is to be defined “largely on universal principles stated in the Dec...

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DeSantis has made a major issue of targeting critical race theory, which is based on the premise that racism is embedded within American society and institutions.

Lessons that deal with critical race theory and “The 1619 Project” are not welcome in Florida’s public schools following a State Board of Education vote on Thursday. At the request of Gov. Ron DeSantis, the board unanimously adopted a rule that, in the words of member Tom Grady, emphasizes historical facts over “fiction, projects or theory masquerading as fact.” Grady offered an amendment that ...

The Florida Board of Education approved a proposal Thursday which outlines the teaching of American history and bans critical race theory.