Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis questioned the College Board’s influence over admissions and Advanced Placement courses Monday after clashing with the organization over a black history class this m…
“This College Board, nobody elected them to anything,” DeSantis said at an unrelated news conference. “They are just kind of there and they provide a service, and so you can either utilize those services or not.”
DeSantis argued that the course was being used as a vessel for the promotion of progressive agendas, and asserted again Monday that that it was permeated by “neo-Marxism.” He also argued that the class did not represent the full spectrum of African-American political thought on flashpoint cultural issues.
But critics ripped the the course’s rejection, arguing that DeSantis was restricting academic inquiry and singling out black history for special scrutiny.
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