Florida Schools Will Keep Teaching ‘Benefits’ of Slavery

“The Florida Board of Education approved several tweaks Wednesday to the state’s standards for teaching social studies, but left intact controversial pieces on Black history that sparked widespread backlash last year,” Politico reports.

“Florida’s new teaching standards include the same language that scored national blowback last year for requiring middle school students to learn ‘how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.'”