The College Board, which develops college-level Advanced Placement (AP) courses for high school students, has admitted to making some mistakes in its rollout of a new high school course on African American Studies that has invited controversy.
Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis opposed an early iteration of the course after the state’s Department of Education determined parts of the course violated Florida’s new “Stop Woke Act.” The Stop Woke Act prohibits schools from teaching that people are inherently sexist or racist by virtue of their race or sex or that members of certain races or sexes bear responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of their race or sex….