The FDOE sent a brief letter to the College Board saying it rejects the AP African American Studies course because it violates Florida law and significantly lacks educational value. 12: FDOE Rejects AP African American Studies Course Here's what you need to know about Florida's feud with the College Board over its AP African American Studies course. And the disagreements have spiraled to the point that DeSantis is threatening to block Florida public schools from teaching all AP courses. While the DeSantis administration has sought in the last year to restrict how educators can teach topics such as race, Florida also has a law requiring schools to teach African American history.īut the governor's view of African American history is clearly at odds with that of the College Board's experts. The first exams will be administered in the spring of 2025.Īccording to the College Board, AP African American Studies reaches into various fields - literature, the arts and humanities, political science, geography, and science - to explore African Americans' vital contributions and experiences. The College Board has been developing AP African American Studies for more than a decade and hopes to make it available to all schools in the 2024-25 school year. Since then, DeSantis and the Florida Department of Education (FDOE) have used the law to have books banned from classrooms and block the AP African American Studies course.Īmong the administration's criticisms of the course are its teachings on intersectionality, Black Queer Studies, the Black Lives Matter movement, Black Feminist Literary Thought, the Reparations Movement, and Black Study and Black Struggle in the 21st Century. The opening salvo was DeSantis' April 2022 signing of the Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (Stop WOKE) Act, which limits topics like race, gender, and sexuality in K-12 and higher education classrooms. Ron DeSantis' war on woke ideology continues to reach deeper and deeper into the state's classrooms as his feud with the College Board over the curriculum for its new Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course extends into 2023. DeSantis said Florida is reevaluating its relationship with the College Board.įlorida Gov.The College Board denounced the FDOE's actions and its lack of communication.The board claims the changes were made due to teacher and professor feedback, not political pressure.
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