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For another year, Florida public school students will continue to learn that Black Americans in some way benefited from slavery. On Wednesday, the Florida Board of Education approved the state's ...
Just days after the Florida Board of Education OK'd new Black history standards, Vice President Kamala Harris was set to visit the state. Florida's new Black history curriculum: 'Slaves developed ...
The Florida Education Association, a statewide teachers’ union representing about 150,000 teachers, called the new standards “a disservice to Florida’s students and are a big step backward ...
Constitution of the United States. Although the United States Constitution has never contained the words "slave" or "slavery" within its text, it dealt directly with American slavery in at least five of its provisions and indirectly protected the institution elsewhere in the document. [1] [2]
Senate Bill 266 advanced in the Florida state senate's appropriations committee on April 13, 2023. The Florida Senate passed the bill on April 28, 2023, by a margin of 27-12. [19] The House version of the bill passed by a vote of 81-34 on May 3, 2023. [20] Governor Ron DeSantis signed the bill concurrently with Florida House Bill 931 on May 15 ...
One of the requirements for Florida to become a state and join the Union was that its constitution must be approved by the United States Congress.In order to fulfill that requirement, an act was passed by the Florida Territorial Council in 1838, approved by Governor Richard Keith Call, calling for the election of delegates in October 1838 to a convention to be held at St. Joseph, Florida.
Florida's Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. said during the board meeting in Orlando that the guidelines go into the "tougher subjects" of slavery and racist violence, as appropriate by age.
In 2021 the Florida Board of Education prohibited teaching about critical race theory or the 1619 Project in public schools. [1]In April 2023, the Board of Education extended the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, often called the "Don't Say Gay" Act, from covering kindergarten to third grade students into covering the entire range of kindergarten to twelfth grade.