Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told Fox News host Dan Bongino that critical race theory will soon be banned in Florida.
“We’re not going to support any Republican candidate for school board who supports critical race theory in all 67 counties or who supports mandatory masking of schoolchildren,” DeSantis told Bongino.
Gov. @RonDeSantisFL tells @dbongino that critical race theory and “any departure from accurate history” will be banned in Florida. pic.twitter.com/jwTAUkw7qA
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) June 6, 2021
The governor’s remarks come as the State Board of Education is set to vote on a proposal that would ban teaching America’s founding as anything “other than the creation of a new nation based largely on universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence.” Teachers would also be unable to “share their personal views or attempt to indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view.”
“Next week, I have my commissioner on education going to the board of education banning it — banning any departure from accurate history and following our standards. This is something that we’ve got to stay on the forefront of,” DeSantis said.
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But DeSantis also made clear that Florida’s GOP would not tolerate school board members who support teaching critical race theory.
“Local elections matter. We are going to get the Florida political apparatus involved so we can make sure there’s not a single school board member who ever indulges critical race theory,” DeSantis said.
DeSantis has been a frequent critic of teaching critical race theory in schools, vowing last month to put a stop to the practice in Florida.
“You can put lipstick on a pig; it’s still a pig,” DeSantis said in Pensacola on May 24. “If we have to play whack-a-mole all over the state stopping this critical race theory, we will do it.”
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The move in Florida comes as nearly a dozen states have made an effort to ban the teaching of critical race theory, with critics blasting the theory as “divisive” and “Marxist.”
