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The revised constitution also created a new Florida Board of Education with seven members (one of whom is the commissioner of education), appointed by the governor to oversee the Department of Education. Division of Vocational Rehabilitation - 930 positions Division of Blind Services - 300 positions Annual operating budget for all entities in ...
The Florida Board of Governors has seventeen members, including fourteen voting members appointed by the governor, as well as the Florida commissioner of education, the chair of the Advisory Council of Faculty Senates, and the chair of the Florida Student Association. The board appoints a chancellor, who serves as the system's chief executive.
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.
Opponents of the curriculum pointed out several issues at a Florida Board of Education meeting last year and said it leaves out Florida’s role in slavery and the oppression of African Americans.
Dozens of churches using Faith in Florida’s resources outside of Florida are in states that have such education restrictions. History education has long been a part of First Missionary Baptist ...
Jerald T. Milanich, anthropologist and archaeologist; curator of archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History; Howard Odum, ecologist; started and directed Center for Environmental Policy at the University of Florida, founded the University's Center for Wetlands in 1973; John Anderson Palmer, philosopher and chairman of Department of ...
Only 11 school districts in Florida have plans in place to teach the required Black history courses that Gov. Ron DeSantis says the state provides.
Antoinette T. Jackson is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa. [1] Her research focusses on sociocultural and historical anthropology, the social construction of race, class, gender, ethnicity; heritage resource management, and American, African American and African Diaspora culture.