A Florida parent’s rights group is recommending that the Department of Education reject most of the school textbooks the group reviewed.
Under the direction of the Florida Citizens Alliance (FCA), 69 people across the state reviewed 38 social studies textbooks to determine whether they were in compliance with Florida statutes.
In preparation for the textbook review, each of the 69 reviewers went through an extensive training program required by the Florida Department of Education (DOE) to learn how to identify critical race theory (CRT) and social-emotional learning (SEL) content. Reviewers also watched training videos produced by Truth in Textbooks and were taught how to identify problematic books—based on omission of facts, factual errors, slants, bias, half-truths, incorrect terminology, printing and formatting errors—and measured each textbook according to Florida’s B.E.S.T. Standards (Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking) and state benchmarks….