{"id":1826394,"date":"2023-01-27T14:50:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T19:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1826394"},"modified":"2023-01-27T14:51:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T19:51:16","slug":"illinois-governor-backs-including-black-queer-theory-other-controversial-lessons-in-african-american-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-governor-backs-including-black-queer-theory-other-controversial-lessons-in-african-american-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Governor Backs Including \u2018Black Queer\u2019 Theory, Other Controversial Lessons In African American Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fillinois-governor-backs-including-black-queer-theory-other-controversial-lessons-in-african-american-studies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1826394&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Illinois Governor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/j-b-pritzker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">J.B. Pritzker<\/a> Proposed AP African American Studies were praised <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">curriculum<\/a>\u00a0This includes \u201cblack queer\u201d Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has criticized Ron DeSantis for advocating Left-wing activism in the name of history.<\/p>\n<p>The College Board has developed the curriculum and it is currently in process. <a href=\"https:\/\/apcentral.collegeboard.org\/about-ap\/how-ap-develops-courses-and-exams\/pilot-ap-african-american-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pilots<\/a> Five dozen high schools in the country have reportedly adopted radical leftist beliefs. Florida Department of Education mandates that public schools teach traditional black history.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/contrary-to-florida-law-desantis-rejects-high-school-course-emerging-nationwide-over-wokeness-concerns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blasted<\/a>\u00a0Material as \u201ccontrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value,\u201d We called on the influential organisation to review it. \u201chistorically accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pritzker however stated that he supports weaving in lessons about such subjects \u201cblack queer\u201d perspectives, \u201cintersectionality\u201d und the so-called reparations movements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIllinois expects any AP course offered on African American studies to include a factual accounting of history, including the role played by black queer Americans,\u201d Pritzker said. \u201cIllinois will closely examine the official coursework to ensure it includes all necessary history, starting with this nation\u2019s foundation built on slavery, the Civil War where this nation reckoned with that history, and the decades of rebuilding and efforts of black Americans to continue their fight for equality and equity to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AP courses, which are offered in certain high schools, are usually equivalent to college credit. Pritzker stated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000185-ebca-d065-a59d-fbdfc8e10000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> David Coleman, CEO of College Board, was informed that the non-profit should \u201cpreserve the fundamental right to an education\u201d No matter what, \u201cpolitical grandstanding\u201d From Florida Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Although some supporters of teaching African American Studies have advocated for the inclusion of controversial cultural aspects, others claim that these courses are often used as a front to teach Left-wing advocacy or grievance studies. DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/theyre-advocating-for-things-like-abolishing-prisons-desantis-discusses-why-he-banned-african-american-studies-course\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a> The current version AP African American Studies Curriculum contains radical theoretical policies like abolishing prisons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re advocating things like abolishing prisons,\u201d DeSantis last year signed a law that prohibited Florida&#8217;s public schools from discriminating on the basis of color, race, or sex. \u201cNow that\u2019s a radical political position,\u201d He told reporters. \u201cYou\u2019re free to take that in your own life, I don\u2019t think very many people think that would actually work, but how is that being taught as fact?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the College Board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/college-board-will-release-framework-for-controversial-african-american-studies-course-on-first-day-of-black-history-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indicated<\/a> The course will go through revisions before it is released to the public in February. This move coincides with Black History Month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois Governor\u00a0J.B. Pritzker praised a proposed AP African American Studies curriculum\u00a0that includes \u201cblack queer\u201d theory and has been criticized by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as pushing Left-wing activism under the guise of history. The curriculum, developed by the College Board and currently undergoing pilots at five dozen high schools across the nation, reportedly focuses on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1826397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7975,4123,4212,4803,4173,6413,3906,7843,15821,4039,5095],"class_list":["post-1826394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-african","tag-american","tag-black","tag-controversial","tag-governor","tag-illinois","tag-including","tag-lessons","tag-queer","tag-studies","tag-theory"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1826397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}