Some organizations including the National Black Justice Coalition are calling for the longtime head of the College Board, David Coleman, to step down.
, vowing to ban the course from the state's classrooms. Certain well-known Black authors, such as Kimberlé Crenshaw and Angela Davis and others associated with topics including critical race theory, were also absent from the new guidelines. sent Tuesday from the Florida Department of Education to the College Board, first reported by the Daily Caller and also obtained by USA TODAY, suggests the two corresponded starting in early 2022 about the pilot course.
Yet Coleman, who joined the College Board roughly a decade ago as president of the SAT, in interviews with USA TODAY andand were not influenced by political pressure "As is always the case in AP, our selection of topics for this course has been guided by feedback from educators, disciplinary experts, and principles that have long shaped AP courses. Your letter claims that we removed 19 topics that were present in the pilot framework at the behest of FDOE. This is inaccurate," the College Board wrote.
But revelations about the interactions between Florida and the College Board are"deeply disturbing," said David Johns, executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, in a statement.
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