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Source: Associated Press
FILE - In this April 30, 2021, file photo surrounded by lawmakers, Florida Gov.
Ron DeSantis speaks at the end of a legislative session at the Capitol in
Tallahassee, Fla. Now that the pandemic appears to be waning and DeSantis is
heading into his reelection campaign next year, he has emerged from the
political uncertainty as one of the most prominent Republican governors and
an early White House front-runner in 2024 among Donald Trump's acolytes, if
the former president doesn't run again.
(AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File) | Photo: AP
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN
Updated: June 10, 2021 01:00 PM
Created: June 10, 2021 11:24 AM
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Florida's state Board of Education banned "critical race theory" from public school classrooms Thursday, adopting new rules it said would shield schoolchildren from curricula that could "distort historical events."
Florida's move was widely expected as a national debate intensifies about how race should be used as a lens in classrooms to examine the country's tumultuous history.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis appeared by video at the top of the board's meeting, urging its members, many of whom he appointed, to adopt the new measures he asserted would serve students with the facts rather than "trying to indoctrinate them with ideology."
The Black Lives Matter movement has helped bring contentious discussions about race to the forefront of American discourse, and classrooms have become a battleground. Supporters contend that federal law has preserved the unequal treatment of people on the basis of race and that the country was founded on the theft of land and labor.
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