Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has sent a letter inviting Vice Pres. Kamala Harris to discuss his state’s new Black history standards.
August 1, 2023, 12:13 AMRepublican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gestures during a campaign event, July 31, 2023, in Rochester, N.H.In a letter obtained by ABC News, DeSantis invited Harris to discuss the new standards with him and Dr. William Allen, one of the architects of the new history curriculum that requires teaching middle school students that Black people got some personal benefits from skills learned while they were enslaved.
"I am prepared to meet as early as Wednesday of this week, but of course want to be deferential to your busy schedule should you already have a trip to the southern border planned for that day," DeSantis wrote in the letter. "Please let me know as soon as possible. What an example we could set for the nation - a serious conversation on the substance of an important issue! I hope you're feeling up to it.
Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gestures during a campaign event, July 31, 2023, in Rochester, N.H.The Florida Board of Education recently approved the controversial new Black history standards, which included "benchmark clarifications" such as one for grades six through eight that "instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.
In the letter, the governor stood by the state's new education standards and lambasted the Biden-Harris administration for"Over the past several weeks, the Biden Administration has repeatedly disparaged our state and misinformed Americans about our education system. Our state pushed forward nation-leading standalone African American History standards - one of the only states in the nation to require this level of learning about such an important subject.
DeSantis' invite comes after Harris blasted the new standards during her recent visit to the state, saying that the guidelines are "not only misleading, it's false, and it is pushing propaganda."Republican Rep. Byron DonaldsOn Thursday night, Scott, one of DeSantis' biggest rivals in the 2024 GOP presidential primary and the only Black Republican running for president
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