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On Thursday, the Florida Board of Education approved a new rule to keep critical race theory out of the classroom.

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.

On Thursday, the Florida Board of Education approved a new rule to keep critical race theory out of the classroom.

WJCT News 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�...

A new ban by the Florida Board of Education on "critical race theory" education is unlikely to impact local curriculum.