Hundreds of people railed against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s Department of Education n Tallahassee this month for rejecting the College Board’s Advanced Placement African American Studies class. The College Board claimed the rejection was “inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.”
In the newest framework of the class, released in early February, the College Board removed much of what the DeSantis administration opposed, which critics called the “watering down of history.”
My name is Ana Goñi-Lessan, and I’m a reporter for the USA TODAY- Florida network, covering children and families.
I wanted to really dig into what exactly changed in the two frameworks, before and after DeSantis rejected the class. So I got a draft of the AP class from a university faculty member, dated for May 2022, and compared it to the most recent framework.