{"id":1979733,"date":"2023-07-21T16:41:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T20:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-defends-florida-schools-black-history-teaching-against-kamala-harris\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T16:42:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T20:42:38","slug":"desantis-defends-florida-schools-black-history-teaching-against-kamala-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-defends-florida-schools-black-history-teaching-against-kamala-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis supports Florida schools&#8217; black history teaching, counters Kamala Harris."},"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\">20<\/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%2Fdesantis-defends-florida-schools-black-history-teaching-against-kamala-harris%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=1979733&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--><h2>Gov. \u2062Ron\u200b DeSantis Slams Kamala \u2064Harris \u200cOver Criticisms of Florida&#8217;s Education System<\/h2>\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has fired back at \u2063Vice President Kamala Harris for her recent criticisms of Florida&#8217;s \u2063education \u200bsystem&#8217;s teachings on black history and\u2063 slavery. Harris\u200c had condemned the \u2063Florida Board of Education&#8217;s decision to revise the state&#8217;s black history curriculum, arguing that it whitewashes U.S.\u2064 history.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Extremists pass book bans to prevent [children] from learning our\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-defends-florida-schools-black-history-teaching-against-kamala-harris\/\" title=\"DeSantis supports Florida schools' black history teaching, counters Kamala Harris.\">true history \u2014 book bans<\/a> in this year of our Lord 2023. And \u2064while they do this, check it out,\u2063 they\u2063 push forward revisionist\u2062 history,&#8221; Harris said during a speech at the national convention for Delta\u2062 Sigma Theta \u200dSorority Inc. in Indianapolis. She specifically highlighted \u2062the requirement for middle\u2064 schools to teach that \u2063slaves benefited from the skills they learned.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>DeSantis took to Twitter to\u2063 respond \u200dto Harris&#8217;s comments, accusing Democrats like\u2063 her of lying about Florida&#8217;s educational standards to further their agenda of indoctrinating students \u2064and introducing sexual \u200btopics to \u2064children. He emphasized \u2064that Florida stands against their agenda and \u2063will continue to expose their lies.<\/p>\n<p>As \u2064a 2024 presidential candidate, DeSantis has made\u2063 it\u200b a priority to combat &#8220;wokeness&#8221; in public schools, arguing\u2064 that it promotes &#8220;state-sanctioned\u2063 racism&#8221; and fosters hatred towards the \u2062U.S. \u2062This stance is crucial to his strategy of positioning\u200b himself as\u200b the\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-men-cant-get-pregnant\/\" title=\"DeSantis: Men Can\u2019t Get Pregnant\">pro-parent candidate<\/a> and challenging former President \u2063Donald \u200cTrump \u200cfor the 2024 GOP nomination.\u200c Last year, DeSantis\u200d signed the Stop WOKE Act into law, which prohibits the teaching \u200bof \u2064critical race theory in public schools and sets\u200b guidelines for\u200b addressing race and gender \u200din businesses and \u200dschools.<\/p>\n<p>Despite recent challenges, DeSantis&#8217;s campaign \u200dremains confident that they are the only team \u2063capable\u2064 of defeating\u2064 President Joe Biden in the upcoming election. DeSantis also\u200d took a \u200djab at the Harris-Biden administration, accusing them \u200cof being\u200d fixated on \u2064Florida while ignoring issues such as the border crisis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-soros-son-visited-bidens-white-house-over-a-dozen-times-since-president-took-office\/\" title=\"George Soros\u2019 Son Visited Biden\u2019s White House Over A Dozen Times Since President Took Office\">crime-infested cities<\/a>, economic\u200c struggles, and\u2064 the military recruitment crisis.<\/p>\n<p>In January, DeSantis&#8217;s administration made headlines when they rejected a College Board Advanced Placement course\u2064 on African\u2064 American history, stating that they prioritize education over \u2062indoctrination.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click here to read more from\u200d The Washington \u2063Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) criticized VP Kamala Harris for her remarks on Florida&#8217;s education system. Harris condemned the state&#8217;s Board of Education&#8217;s unanimous decision to alter the black history curriculum, claiming it whitewashes U.S. history. DeSantis expressed his disagreement during a speech at the national convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1979734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/1979733","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}