Finally we are beginning to see some pushback against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ infamously cynical “stop WOKE” crusade, writes Clarence Page.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 24, 2022, in Orlando.
Right on, I say. Dunn is one of eight plaintiffs who are challenging the state’s new and controversial Stop WOKE Act , among other efforts by the governor to set up a system that could punish teachers for teaching race in ways that the governor does not like.The DeSantis administration’s latest headline-making move came earlier this month when the Florida Department of Education rejected an Advanced Placement African American studies course offered by the College Board.
After Republican Glenn Youngkin’s long-shot victory in Virginia’s governor’s race in 2021 after campaigning heavily against “critical race theory,” a line of study not taught in public schools, Republicans and other conservatives have weaponized the term to blast any lessons on race, gender and identity that they don’t like as liberal “indoctrination.”
A well-educated educator with degrees from Berea College, Harvard and the University of Chicago, Woodson observed with chagrin that African American contributions “were overlooked, ignored, and even suppressed by the writers of history textbooks and the teachers who use them.”
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