After an overhaul to Florida’s African American history standards, Gov. Ron DeSantis is facing a barrage of criticism this week from politicians, educators and historians, who called the state’s guidelines a sanitized version of history.
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In a sign of the divisive battle around education that could infect the 2024 presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris directed her staffers to immediately plan a trip to Florida to respond, according to one White House official.
Florida’s rewrite of its African American history standards comes in response to a 2022 law signed by DeSantis, known as the “Stop WOKE Act,” that prohibits instruction that could prompt students to feel discomfort about a historical event because of their race, sex or national origin. But he saw some of Florida’s adjustments as going too far, de-emphasizing the violence and inhumanity endured by Black Americans and resulting in only a “partial history.”
One contested standard states that high school students should learn about “violence perpetrated against and by African Americans” during race massacres of the early 20th century, such as the Tulsa Race Massacre. In that massacre, white rioters destroyed a prosperous Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and as many as 300 people were killed.
She said she would have objected to the standards as “slanted” and “incomplete.” She questioned, for instance, why more emphasis was not placed on the history of African people before colonization and enslavement.
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