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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Ron DeSantis and the AP Curriculum Wars

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Florida rejects an Advanced Placement course on African-American Studies, which Gov. Ron DeSantis says is full of political indoctrination and Critical Race Theory, or CRT. Does he have a point about the College Board's class design, and is school choice a solution for a divided nation? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:08.2

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0:17.8

From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal,

0:20.6

this is Potomac Watch.

0:23.8

Florida rejects a proposed high school advanced placement

0:27.4

or AP course in African American Studies,

0:30.6

which Governor Ron DeSantis says was politically biased.

0:34.4

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

0:37.7

We are joined today by my colleagues,

0:40.0

Kalm to Skimstrassel and editorial board member Kate

0:43.2

Batchel, the Roedell.

0:44.3

Welcome and happy Friday to you both.

0:47.0

The AP program, as many parents know,

0:49.5

is run by a private nonprofit called the College Board

0:53.5

and it lets high school students take advanced classes

0:56.4

for college credit as long as they do well on the AP test.

1:00.3

And the college board's offerings range from Latin

1:03.1

to biology to macroeconomics.

1:06.1

It's working on a new course in African American Studies.

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