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Chicago Sun TimesThe Chicago Democrat is warning the nonprofit that oversees the Advanced Placement program that Illinois will reject a revised African American Studies course if it doesnt include a factual accounting of history, including the role played by black queer Americans.
Pritzker sent a sharply worded letter to the board over its decision to revise the Advanced Placement course in African American Studies after the Florida governor and likely GOP presidential candidate blocked Florida high schools from offering the course because it included segments on queer theory and abolishing prisons, among other topics.
In Illinois, we reject any curriculum modifications designed to appease extremists like the Florida Governor and his allies, Pritzker wrote in the letter obtained by the Sun-Times.
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FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)Gov. Pritzker's letter (downloaded from Chicago Sun-Times)
Just A Box Of Rain
(5,104 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)ShazzieB
(16,382 posts)Fricking paywall won't let me read the whole article. *grumble* But I got enough of the gist to be proud of Pritzker for the umpty-umpth time. SO glad I voted forhim!
Celerity
(43,333 posts)ShazzieB
(16,382 posts)Phoenix61
(17,003 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,010 posts)He handily won a second term & he's either going to ride off as a 2 term governor or he'll be popular enough to win a third term.
Four more years of fiscal success could make him awfully popular.
He's in a position to pop off at a tool like DeSantis, so he might as well do it. And, he did.
walkingman
(7,606 posts)class. Racism is systemic in America and our education system is doing a poor job in changing that. I think a lot of it is generational and that has to change.
live love laugh
(13,104 posts)ancianita
(36,043 posts)Now I'm stuck with sleezy Santis.
Atticus
(15,124 posts)mushroomhunter
(88 posts)So happy he won his election -
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)ancianita
(36,043 posts)It's bad enough that Texas controls so much in high school textbook adoption; no way is Florida going to force the rest of states to go along with its legalized stupidity.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,331 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(7,921 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(7,921 posts)Skittles
(153,150 posts)I cannot stand him any more than I can stand Donald Fucking Trump, they both make me SICK.
Arazi
(6,829 posts)Hes a sleeper but has the right stuff
This is a boss move and so spot on
mopinko
(70,090 posts)hed be great, but i cant see him winning the primary.
glad he uses his bully pulpit, tho. and he can have as many terms as he wants.