{"id":1998246,"date":"2023-08-11T18:36:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T22:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-education-department-says-ap-psychology-not-banned-after-college-board-cried-censorship\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T18:37:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T22:37:46","slug":"florida-education-department-says-ap-psychology-not-banned-after-college-board-cried-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-education-department-says-ap-psychology-not-banned-after-college-board-cried-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Education Department denies banning AP Psychology despite College Board&#8217;s censorship claims."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fflorida-education-department-says-ap-psychology-not-banned-after-college-board-cried-censorship%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=1998246&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>Florida Department of Education Clarifies: AP Psychology Still Allowed in Schools<\/h2>\n<p>The Florida \u200bDepartment of Education \u2063has made it clear that AP\u2063 Psychology is still permitted in schools, despite\u200d claims from the \u200cCollege Board that the course was banned under a new \u200blaw. This announcement comes after multiple school districts\u2064 dropped the\u2062 course following the College Board&#8217;s assertion that it \u200dwas\u200b &#8220;effectively banned&#8221; under Florida&#8217;s new\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-americans-can-no-longer-conduct-business-and-commerce-as-usual\/\" title=\"Conservative Americans Can No Longer Conduct Business \u2014 And Commerce \u2014 As Usual\">law restricting instruction<\/a> on\u2062 gender identity.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We are \u2064sad to\u2062 have learned that today \u2064the Florida Department of Education has effectively banned AP Psychology in the state by instructing Florida \u2063superintendents \u200dthat teaching foundational\u2064 content on sexual orientation and gender \u2062identity is\u200b illegal under state law,&#8221; \u2062the College Board said \u200din a statement on August 3.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In response to \u2062the College Board&#8217;s statement, districts across Florida began removing AP Psychology from their curriculum. However,\u2063 the Department of Education\u200c sent a letter to superintendents the next day, affirming that\u200d AP Psychology could still be\u200b taught &#8220;in its\u200d entirety&#8221; and\u200c accusing\u2063 the College Board of &#8220;playing games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Clearing Up Misinterpretations<\/h3>\n<p>Despite the Department of Education&#8217;s letter, concerns remained. To address these concerns, Florida Education Commissioner Manny \u200cDiaz Jr. clarified \u200donce again that the course is not banned.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;As Commissioner of Education, I tasked\u200c my team with reviewing the AP Psychology framework at length. I believe I was clear in\u200d my previous letter, but I want to make sure there is no room \u2063for misinterpretation,&#8221; Diaz\u200c wrote in a letter to school\u2063 superintendents.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Department of \u200cEducation believes \u2063that the part of the course that explores \u200dhow sex and gender influence socialization and development can be taught in accordance with Florida law. Diaz&#8217;s \u200bletter provided &#8220;clear guidance&#8221; that offers certainty to \u200beducators, parents, and \u2062students, according \u200cto the College\u200d Board&#8217;s response.<\/p>\n<h3>Protecting\u2063 Parental Rights<\/h3>\n<p>Last year, \u200cRepublican Governor Ron DeSantis \u200bsigned the Parental Rights in\u2062 Education law, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-desantis-floats-repealing-disneys-special-self-governing-status-in-florida\/\" title=\"Gov. DeSantis Floats Repealing Disney\u2019s Special Self-Governing Status in Florida\">prohibits classroom instruction<\/a> about \u2063sexual orientation and \u200dgender identity through grade three. Subsequently, another law extended these restrictions through eighth grade, \u2063and in April, Florida&#8217;s board of education expanded the restrictions to all grades. Exceptions to the restrictions are allowed as part \u2064of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-education-department-says-ap-psychology-not-banned-after-college-board-cried-censorship\/\" title=\"Florida Education Department denies banning AP Psychology despite College Board's censorship claims.\">optional \u200dreproductive \u200bhealth education<\/a> \u200bor to comply with existing state standards.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis has argued that \u2064this legislation keeps parents informed about their children&#8217;s education and protects young \u2062children from premature exposure to sexual content.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We are going to remain a\u200c refuge of sanity\u2064 and a citadel of \u200dnormalcy, and kids should have an upbringing\u2062 that reflects that,&#8221; \u200bDeSantis said when he signed the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/authors-of-childrens-book-about-penguin-with-two-dads-sue-florida\/\" title=\"Florida sued by authors of children's book featuring penguin with two dads.\">law expanding content restrictions<\/a> through eighth grade.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>AP Psychology is part\u2064 of the College Board&#8217;s Advanced\u2062 Placement program, which allows high school students to take\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-times-1619-project-paved-way-for-mainstream-media-to-pursue-critical-race-theory-propaganda\/\" title=\"NY Times\u2019 1619 Project Paved Way for Mainstream Media to Pursue Critical Race Theory Propaganda\">college-level courses<\/a>. Last school year, over 28,000 Florida\u200d students enrolled in AP \u2064Psychology. The\u200c College Board has stated that \u200bit will \u2062not alter the course to meet Florida&#8217;s legal requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The inclusion of gender and sexual\u2063 content in\u200d school curricula and libraries\u200b has become a contentious issue in recent years. Concerned parents have voiced\u2063 their\u200d opinions at school board\u200b meetings, expressing\u2063 their\u2063 worries about the content their \u2062children \u2063are exposed to in public schools.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida&#8217;s Department of Education clarified that AP Psychology remains permissible in schools, contradicting the College Board&#8217;s assertion that the course was prohibited by a recent law. Several school districts had discontinued the course based on the College Board&#8217;s claim that it was &#8220;effectively banned&#8221; in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1998247,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1998246","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}