Tue May 10, 2022 – 6:18 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Florida’s efforts to “de-woke” public education materials are already paying dividends, with the state Department of Education announcing that textbook publishers “are aligning their instructional materials to state standards and removing woke content.”
The Florida DOE announced last week that this development has allowed the state “to add 19 more books to the state adoption list over the past 17 days,” the Daily Caller reported.
UPDATE: In the past 17 days, the Florida Department of Education has been able to add 19 more textbooks to the state adoption list, due to the publishers making changes to align materials to our state standards — per @EducationFL
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The department had previously announced the rejection of 41% of math textbooks that had been submitted for review for containing ideologically-charged “indoctrinating concepts” such as Critical Race Theory (CRT), Social Emotional Learning (SEL), and Common Core. Examples include graphs falsely claiming conservatives have higher “levels of racial prejudice” than liberals, and material stating an objective to have students “build proficiency with social awareness,” a common euphemism for affinity with left-wing social
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