The College Board says changes will be made to its new AP African American studies course, after critics said the agency bowed to right-wing political pressure and removed several topics.
Hundreds of people participate in the National Action Network demonstration in response to Gov. Ron DeSantis' rejection of a high school African American history course, Feb. 15, 2023, in Tallahassee, Fla. In a statement, Monday, April 24, 2023, the College Board announced changes will be made to the new AP African American course framework amid criticism earlier in the year that the agency bowed to political pressure and removed several topics from the framework.
The company said Monday the creation of the course had prioritized access to a discipline that is not widely available to high schoolers, plus bringing that content to as many students as possible — a possible reference to students in states run by conservatives. “Regrettably,” the nonprofit testing company said, those two goals “came into conflict.”
“We are committed to providing an unflinching encounter with the facts and evidence of African American history and culture,” the company said.The course gained national attention this winter when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2024, said he would ban the course in his state because it pushed a political agenda.
The course was launched in 60 schools in the U.S. and will be expanded to 800 schools and 16,000 students this upcoming school year.
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