Gov. DeSantis Fires Back At VP Harris Over Florida Education Standards

New Florida academic standards guiding schools’ instruction about Black history have ignited heated debate nationally, bringing Vice President Kamala Harris to Florida to condemn the guidelines and prompting a defense from Gov. Ron DeSantis. 

Backlash over the standards, approved Wednesday by the state Board of Education, centers largely on a part of the middle-school curriculum. 

The standards include a provision that requires instruction to include “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

Ron DeSantis by Gage Skidmore is licensed under Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0
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