College Board Bends The Knee To DeSantis, Drops CRT and BLM From AP African American Studies, Adds “Black Conservatives”

College Board Bends The Knee To DeSantis, Drops CRT and BLM From AP African American Studies, Adds “Black Conservatives”

Gov. Ron DeSantis is on a roll when it comes to squeezing “wokeness” out of the education sponge.  Yesterday we reported on the defunding of CRT and DEI, DeSantis Takes Wrecking Ball To “Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion” Bureaucracy In Florida Public Universities:

The budgets for DEI are gone:

• Prohibiting higher education institutions from using any funding, regardless of source, to support DEI, CRT, and other discriminatory initiatives;

And the ideological litmus test of DEI hiring statements are gone:

• Prohibiting postsecondary institutions from using discriminatory political filters, including political loyalty oaths and DEI statements, in the hiring process;

This will wipe out the DEI bureaucracy. Expect the ACLU to claim this violated the court injunction [as to the STOP WOKE Act].

DeSantis previously had rejected the Advanced Placement African American Studies curriculum because it was too radical, pushing Critical Race Theory and promoting Black Lives Matter, among other things. Contrary to the lying media, he did not oppose the course, but objected to the leftist curriculum and wanted improvements.

.@GovRonDeSantis on Florida's rejection of @CollegeBoard's AP African American Studies course:

"When you try to use black history to shoehorn in queer theory, you are clearly trying to use that for political purposes."

— Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) January 23, 2023

Those improvements were released by the College Board today, as the NY Times laments:

After heavy criticism from Gov. Ron DeSantis, the College Board released on Wednesday an official curriculum for its new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies — stripped of much of the subject matter that had angered the governor and other conservatives.

The College Board purged the names of many Black writers and scholars associated with critical race theory, the queer experience and Black feminism. It ushered out some politically fraught topics, like Black Lives Matter, from the formal curriculum.

And it added something new: “Black conservatism” is now offered as an idea for a research project.

MORE TO FOLLOW

The people who insist that no one would ever try to teach CRT in public schools sure are mad that the College Board is backing down on its plan to teach CRT in public schools.

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) February 1, 2023

Oh look, the College Board caved to freaking fascists by expunging Kimberle Crenshaw, Ta-Nehisi Voates, and Roderick Ferguson from its AP Black history course.

What total punks.

https://t.co/o4kKN8gBCx

— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) February 1, 2023

Forida stands in contrast to NY State, which is sinking deeper into straight-up ideological indoctrination and litmus tests throughout the State University of NY (SUNY) system, SUNY makes new racial equity class mandatory for graduation at all schools

The 64-campus SUNY college system is turning into the Woke University of New York — telling incoming freshmen at all of its colleges that they will have to pass a new “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice”-themed class to earn a diploma.

According to State University of New York documents, the new college racial equity courses must:

• Describe the historical and contemporary societal factors that shape the development of individual and group identity involving race, class and gender.
• Analyze the role that complex networks of social structures and systems play in the creation and perpetuation of the dynamics of power, privilege, oppression and opportunity.
• Apply the principles of rights, access, equity, and autonomous participation to past, current, or future social justice action.

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