Amanda Gorman reciting a poem during the inauguration.
A current first grade history lesson in use in Florida.
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.
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.
Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, argues that the Justice Department has victimized and attempted to silence conservative parents.
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’s education commissioner, Manny Diaz Jr. said parts of the course were “masquerading as education.”
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.