Florida lt. gov. on officials rejecting CRT-laced textbooks: 'Parents should be breathing a sigh of relief'
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Florida Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez said Monday parents "should be breathing a sigh of relief" after officials rejected public school textbooks for including critical race theory.Florida's Department of Education (DOE) rejected 41% of mathematics textbooks submitted for use in the state's public schools Friday, citing critical race theory and other issues with the texts.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has led a push to reform education standards and practices in the state. Florida called for textbook submissions from publishers in 2021 in accordance with a 2019 executive order from DeSantis aimed at eliminating Common Core standards in the state. The textbooks rejected "were impermissible with either Florida’s new standards or contained prohibited topics."
"It seems that some publishers attempted to slap a coat of paint on an old house built on the foundation of Common Core, and indoctrinating concepts like race essentialism, especially, bizarrely, for elementary school students," DeSantis said in a statement accompanying the announcement. "
I’m grateful that Commissioner Corcoran and his team at the Department have conducted such a thorough vetting of these textbooks to ensure they comply with the law.""All grades have at least one high-quality curriculum that will align with our standards. The state standard said we want to make sure our kids can learn. Be free from indoctrination. I think parents should breathe a sigh of relief today."