Ban the College Board, Part II
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The College Board’s ridiculous claims that taking all the “controversial” stuff out of the AP African-American course had nothing to do with political interference was laughable even before we had the actual evidence that they were lying. And now we do have the evidence.
While the College Board was developing its first Advanced Placement course in African American studies, the group was in repeated contact with the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, often discussing course concepts that the state said it found objectionable, a newly released letter shows.
When the final course guidelines were released last week, the College Board had removed or significantly reduced the presence of many of those concepts — like intersectionality, mass incarceration, reparations and the Black Lives Matter movement — though it said that political pressure played no role in the changes. Florida had announced in January that it would not approve the curriculum.
The specifics about the discussions, which occurred over the course of a year, were outlined in a Feb. 7 letter from the Florida Department of Education to the College Board.
The existence of the letter was first reported by The Daily Caller, a conservative news site. A copy of the letter was posted on Scribd. Its authenticity was verified by a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Education, which released a copy on Thursday.
The College Board responded to the letter with one of its own, saying that Florida’s concerns had not influenced any revisions to the course, which had been shaped instead by feedback from educators.
“We provide states and departments of Education across the country with the information they request for inclusion of courses within their systems,” the letter said, adding, “We need to clarify that no topics were removed because they lacked educational value. We believe all the topics listed in your letter have substantial educational value.” The College Board declined an interview.
Wait, you thought Ron DeSantis was going to let you get away with claiming that he didn’t win this battle? How naive are you?