Florida’s examples of banned topics in math books derided as ‘political theater’

Education officials release four examples among the 54 math textbooks they rejected last week because of prohibited topics'

Education officials in Florida have been criticized for putting political theater" over teaching after they revealed four examples from among the 54 math textbooks they rejected last week.

The state said it had refused to use the books because of prohibited topics" including alleged references to critical race theory. On Friday, however, after pressure to explain the decisions, the education department published several images of math problems from the textbook with the offending segments highlighted.