The College Board has denounced some of the claims made about the course, something it said it should have done earlier.
The College Board also said it should have immediately denounced what they called the Florida Department of Education’s “slander” that the course “lacks educational value.”
Additionally, the board said claims that they were in frequent dialogue with Florida about the content of AP African American studies were false and politically motivated. It said phone calls to the state did little to clarify the matter, as the concerns stated included “vague, uninformed questions like, ‘What does the word ‘intersectionality’ mean?’ and ‘Does the course promote Black Panther thinking?’”
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