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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 ...
Florida's education commissioner, Manny Diaz Jr., said during the board meeting in Orlando that the guidelines go in to the "tougher subjects" of slavery and racist violence, as appropriate by age.
I believe that the move by the Florida Department of Education to adopt the regulations for 2023’s Senate Bill 266 and its House Bill 999 counterpart pertaining to diversity, equity and ...
The Congressional Black Caucus is pushing the White House, Justice Department and the Department of Education to adopt an “aggressive legal strategy” to scrutinize recent changes to Florida's ...
At that time, high school education for African Americans was provided in only 28 of Florida's 67 counties. [4] In 1939–1940, the average salary of a white teacher in Florida was $1,148, whereas for a black teacher it was $585. [5] During the era of segregation, the myth was that the races were separated but were provided equal facilities.
In 1838, Virginia's free black population petitioned the state, as a group, to send their children to school outside of Virginia to bypass its anti-literacy law. They were refused. [8] In some cases, slaveholders ignored the laws. They looked the other way when their children played school and taught their slave playmates how to read and write.
William Barclay Allen (born 1944) is an American author, professor, and political scientist from Fernandina Beach, Florida. [1] He was a member of the National Council on the Humanities from 1984 to 1987 and chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights from 1988 to 1989.
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 ...