Several school districts already moved on from the class amid the uncertainty and are instead offering different psychology options.
The College Board’s claims that the course was banned sent some schools scrambling to find replacements last week while others were left weighing their options with mere days before classes start. | Matt Rourke/AP PhotoTALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida is allowing schools to offer the College Board’s Advance Placement psychology course after Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr.
“I believe I was clear in my previous letter, but I want to make sure there is no room for misinterpretation,” Diaz wrote in a letter. “It is the Department of Education’s stance that the learning target … ‘Describe how sex and gender influence socialization and other aspects of development,’ … can be taught consistent with Florida law.”
The College Board’s claims that the course was banned sent some schools scrambling to find replacements last week while others were left weighing their options with mere days before classes start. “If there was a way we could teach this course and not have our teachers get arrested, we would do it in a second,” Mike Burke, Palm Beach’s school chief, said Tuesday morning at a back-to-school breakfast, as reported by theSome school districts quickly dropped AP psychology and instead are offering Cambridge Advanced International Certificate of Education, or AICE, and International Baccalaureate programs.
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