The state of Florida “effectively banned” a second Advanced Placement course as noncompliant with its newly enacted standards, after it barred schools from offering a newly created AP African American Studies course earlier this year.
Earlier this year, the state barred schools from offering a newly created AP African American Studies course. Now Florida is blocking districts from offering a class that they have taught for three decades and to thousands of students each year.
The state guidance comes just a week before classes begin across the state, forcing districts into difficult decisions. They can alter the course in defiance of the College Board’s warning, they can teach it and risk violating state law, or they can scramble to come up with an alternative. Across Florida, 562 schools offer AP Psychology.“What if you’ve already got literally thousands of students enrolled in the class and teachers hired?” he said.
The AP Psychology course asks students to “describe how sex and gender influence socialization and other aspects of development.” The College Board said this element of the class had been present since the course launched in 1993. Florida schools have offered the class every year since then, an official said.
to include all grades. Teachers who violate the ban could see their teaching licenses suspended or revoked.— International Baccalaureate and Cambridge International — said their psychology courses were already compliant with Florida’s standards. That’s because they already allow districts to pick and choose among a menu of lessons.
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