Ron DeSantis 
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SOURCE: Substack
1/23/2023
Banished Podcast: Sunshine State's Descent Into Darkness
by Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
Two historian podcasters evaluate the effort to politicize the history curriculum in Florida's K-12 schools and public colleges.
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SOURCE: NBC News
1/26/2023
Dem Governors Pritzker and Newsom Challenge AP on Caving to DeSantis
"I am extremely troubled by recent news reports that claim Governor DeSantis is pressuring the College Board to change the AP African American Studies course in order to fit Florida’s racist and homophobic laws," Pritzker said.
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SOURCE: The King Center
1/22/2023
Dr. Bernice King's Statement on Florida's Rejection of AP African American Studies
"The children are waiting for you to step up, stop the propaganda and disinformation and show them how you will stand for justice and truth. The King Center stands ready to help facilitate a win-win outcome to the conflict around the AP African American Studies Curriculum."
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SOURCE: MSNBC
1/23/2023
Prof. Marvin Dunn: I was Teaching Before DeSantis was Born
Prof. Dunn discusses Florida's divisive concepts law and refusal to accept an AP course in African American Studies with MSNBC's Joy Ann Reid
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/21/2023
Marvin Dunn: Florida Prof Defies New Laws to "Teach the Truth"
The Professor Emeritus at Florida International University says that he can't teach about the history of racist terrorism in the state without registering disgust for the actions of lynch mobs or offering clarity about the political purposes of the violence.
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SOURCE: Daily Beast
1/19/2023
Florida's Ban on AP African American Studies Class is Authoritarian
by Jeremy C. Young
The decision is "bad for free speech and for educational practice, and it's especially worrisome for Florida high school students. When politicians go to war with teachers, students always lose."
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SOURCE: The Conversation
1/18/2023
DeSantis Merging Fear of Lessons on Race and Sexuality with Attacks on Public Education
by Jonathan Feingold
Ron DeSantis's General Counsel defined "woke" as “the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.” The governor's education agenda is neatly summed up by this statement, and it's spreading nationwide.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/19/2023
Colleges are Vulnerable to Political Attacks Because They've Abandoned their Roots
by Christine Adams
"Despite the persistence of conservative campaigns against higher education, American colleges and universities have never really hit on an adequate response to these attacks."
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SOURCE: The Nation
1/11/2023
Florida Man Calls the Thought Police
by Victor Ray
"Another word for believing in systemic inequality is 'reality.' Few legitimate social scientists claim otherwise, as an overwhelming body of evidence supports structural accounts of racism." By suppressing this reality, DeSantis reaches back to the McCarthy era's suppression of thinking about racism.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/11/2023
The Right's Chaos Politics Meet Institutional Inertia in the Fight for Florida's New College
by Brian Rosenberg
"The reference to Hillsdale and not to a 'great books' college like St. John’s in Annapolis totally gives away the game: This is not about teaching the Western canon but about scoring political points and creating not a traditional college but a conservative Republican college."
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/11/2023
DeSantis's New College Coup Will Fail
by Adam Laats
Transforming colleges along ideological lines is much more difficult than amassing political power or appointing allies to governing boards. Conservatives are able to operate successful and ideologically friendly institutions when they accept that they will be occupy a niche, not change the ecosystem.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
1/3/2023
A Florida University is Assembling list of "CRT" Courses on DeSantis Request
by Emma Pettit
The governor appears to be trying to document the expenditure of state funds to implement any program, including academic instruction, reated to "Critical Race Theory" or "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" in the state.
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SOURCE: ProPublica
1/3/2023
Florida's Anti-CRT Law is Influencing Professors to Cancel Classes on Race
Faculty, particularly those without tenure protections, are deciding that the vague terms and harsh penalties in the state's new law make the risk of teaching about racism too high.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/5/2022
A Whitmer-DeSantis Showdown Would Put Two Visions of Public Health on the Ballot
by Andrew Wehrman
History suggests that Whitmer's approach to public responsibility for pandemic control works better than DeSantis's individualistic framework for controlling disease. Which one might win votes is another question.
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SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
11/17/2022
DeSantis v. Trump: More Polish, Less Bombast, Same Threat to Democracy?
by Annika Brockschmidt
Conservatives appear eager to boost Ron DeSantis as a "normal" conservative without Trump's "big lie" baggage. Yet his political career is a monument to the pursuit of minority rule, from gerrymandering to voting rights.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
11/21/2022
School Politics at the Center of DeSantis's Conservatism
by Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
Although contemporary conservatives tend to malign public schools and teachers, they are tapping into a long historical legacy in which widespread education was conditioned on the promise that schools would inculcate nationalism and the morality of conservative ruling elites.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
11/10/2022
Miami Was Once a Model for Diversity Training—But it was Always Controversial
by Catherine Mas
Beginning in the 1970s, Miami-Dade County led the way in exploring ways to train health and human services professionals to interact with the area's diverse populations with respect and effective communication. The conflicts exploited by the "Stop WOKE" Act date back to this period.
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SOURCE: Banished (Substack)
11/1/2022
Will Florida's "Stop WOKE Act" Hold Up in Court? (Podcast)
Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder discuss the implications of the Florida legislature's intervention into the teaching of history.
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SOURCE: Bolts
10/27/2022
Florida's Arrests of Voters with Felony Convictions Echoes Post-Reconstruction Era
Felon disenfranchisement dates back to Florida's first constitution in 1838; after Florida's voters approved a constitutional amendment, Governor Ron DeSantis's administration has instituted loopholes to prevent people from exercising that right and making public arrests that are likely to make many convicted Floridians think better of trying.
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SOURCE: Politico
10/24/2022
MAGA Mom Activists Heavily Represented on DeSantis Book Review Panel
Both transparency and expertise seem to have been ignored in the selection of conservative activists to staff a Florida panel implementing new restrictions on school libraries and in-classroom reading materials.
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