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Amanda Gorman’s Inaugural Poem, “The Hill We Climb,” Restricted by Florida School

By: Amanda Holpuch
A grade school in Miami-Dade County said “The Hill We Climb,” which Ms. Gorman read at President Biden’s inauguration in 2021, was “better suited” for older students after a parent complained about it.

Amanda Gorman reciting a poem during the inauguration.

DeSantis May Have Been Right

By: John McWhorter
The College Board amended its original plan for an A.P. African American studies course. It was probably for the best.

DeSantis May Have Been Right

By: John McWhorter
The College Board amended its original plan for an A.P. African American studies course. It was probably for the best.

The College Board’s Rocky Path, Through Florida, to the A.P. Black Studies Course

By: Anemona Hartocollis · Dana Goldstein and Stephanie Saul
The nonprofit met with Governor DeSantis’s state officials, who asked whether the course was “trying to advance Black Panther thinking.”

There had long been talk about the need for an Advanced Placement course focused on the Black experience. Now in a pilot program for African American studies, Rachel Williams-Giordano instructed the students Agustina Leon Perdomo, 16, center, and Riley Ferrell, 16, at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in Cambridge, Mass.

Florida Officials Had Repeated Contact With College Board Over African American Studies

By: Dana Goldstein · Stephanie Saul and Anemona Hartocollis
A letter from state officials is likely to fuel controversy over the College Board, which has been accused of stripping or minimizing concepts to please conservatives.

In January, demonstrators in Tallahassee protested policies restricting how issues of race are taught in Florida schools, including the decision by the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis to reject a proposed Advanced Placement course in African American studies.

House G.O.P. Subpoenas Biden Officials for Investigating School-Related Threats

By: Luke Broadwater
Representative Jim Jordan, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, demanded documents for an investigation into whether the government mistreated parents scrutinized after threats against school officials.

Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, argues that the Justice Department has victimized and attempted to silence conservative parents.

Inside the College Board’s Revised African American Studies Curriculum

By: Dana Goldstein
A guide to some changes in the curriculum, and how the new course differs from standard treatments of Black history in American high schools.

An entire unit on “the origins, mission and global influence of the Black Lives Matter movement and the Movement for Black Lives” has been deleted from the 2022 framework.

Florida Gives Reasons for Rejecting A.P. African American Studies Class

By: Eliza Fawcett and Anemona Hartocollis
The state’s Department of Education cites examples of what it calls “the woke indoctrination” of students.

Florida’s education commissioner, Manny Diaz Jr. said parts of the course were “masquerading as education.”

Florida Rejects AP African American Studies Class

By: Patricia Mazzei and Anemona Hartocollis
The state’s Department of Education said in a letter that the course content was “inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida signed legislation last year that restricted how racism and other aspects of history can be taught in schools and workplaces. A federal judge blocked part of the law, but it still applies to public schools.
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