Florida rejects 54 math textbooks over ‘prohibited topics’ including critical race theory
by Oliver Laughland from US news | The Guardian on (#5Y92J)
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Florida's education department has rejected 54 mathematics textbooks from next year's school curriculum, citing alleged references to critical race theory among a range of reasoning for some of the rejections, officials announced.
The department said in a news release Friday that some of the books had been rejected for failure to comply with the state's content standards, Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking [Best], but that 21% of the books were disallowed because they incorporate prohibited topics or unsolicited strategies, including CRT".
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