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One Thing: Are Florida Students Getting the Full Story?

CNN 5 Things

CNN

Daily News, News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Earlier this month, the state of Florida announced it would block reject a proposed Advanced Placement course on African American Studies. The move follows laws passed in Florida and other Republican-led states aimed at restricting certain race-based coursework in the classroom, including so-called critical race theory. We examine how students, parents and teachers are reacting to this new era of partisan education.  Guest: Leyla Santiago, CNN Correspondent To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I want to do a quick calendar check. This Wednesday, it's February 1st. Of course that's the start of

0:34.3

Black History Month. You're going to see a lot of special programs in schools. But in the state of

0:39.2

Florida one new Black History course is off limits, at least for now.

0:45.7

Florida Governor Ron Desantis is back in the headlines for doing what he does best,

0:50.6

picking fights and waging culture wars.

0:53.0

The Republican governor says a new advanced placement course in African American studies is full of topics that push a political agenda.

1:01.0

And so public high schools won't be allowed to offer. He says Florida's

1:04.3

current standards for teaching black history are quote cut and dried history and

1:07.9

that multiple lessons in that particular course go too far. My guess this week is CNN correspondent Leila Santiago who's

1:15.0

based in Florida. We talk about how what's going on there is just one piece of the

1:19.3

puzzle in this new era of partisan education and how it's impacting parents, teachers, and

1:24.7

students all across the country. From CNN, this is one thing. I'm David Ryan.

1:43.0

Lela, it seems like every few weeks I see a new headline about Florida and schools, And the latest involves this dust up over a proposed advanced placement

1:46.8

course, right?

1:47.4

Like what's going on here?

1:48.6

So this is an AP course, which is set by the College Board, that's a nonprofit organization that has always for decades managed this and

1:57.3

Essentially, Governor Rondesantis said no thank you. It's a piloted course they spent about 10 years coming up with this

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