WaPo: “After Florida education officials rejected a number of math textbooks over alleged “woke content,”including references to critical race theory, some of the books have been reinstated.
The Florida Department of Education announced Thursday thatnine books were added back to an adoption list of instructional materials for math after publishers removed prohibited topics from the text.
“Publishers are aligning their instructional materials to state standards and removing woke content,” according to a statement on the department’s website.
It is also giving other publishers the chance to “remediate all deficiencies” to make sure “the broadest selection of high quality instructional materials” are available to students, it said.
The move follows an announcement from state education officials this month that 54 of the 132 math textbooks on its adoption list — most of them elementary level — did not make the cut. Some of the books did not align with state content standards, called the Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking, or BEST, or they included “prohibited topics” and “unsolicited strategies,” such as critical race theory (CRT), officials said in a statement.”