26, 2022
By Kat Bouza
Sen. Rick Scott (click here) was the only featured speaker at Turning Point USA's conference who openly condemned the display of swastikas and other Nazi imagery by a group of pro-DeSantis protestors...
February 12, 2023
by Ian Shapira
The organization’s heated remarks come after a statement last month from the Florida Department of Education’s spokeswoman, who said the AP class — now under a pilot program at about 60 public high schools nationwide — “lacks educational value and is contrary to Florida law,” and even implied that the class contained falsehoods. “If the course comes into compliance and incorporates historically accurate content, the Department will reopen the discussion,” said the spokeswoman, Cassie Palelis.
On Saturday, the College Board issued a response, saying it was time “to clear the air and set the record straight.” The group, which oversees the AP program and the SAT, said it regretted “not immediately denouncing the Florida Department of Education’s slander” and that its failure to speak up, “betrayed Black scholars everywhere and those who have long toiled to build this remarkable field.”...