Recent comments from the Florida Department of Education commissioner are raising concerns among educators throughout the state that political agendas are seeping their way into classroom instruction and halting the education process around both historic and current events.
While speaking at an event at Hillsdale College, a private conservative school in Michigan, Richard Corcoran was asked about critical race theory a movement that examines the intersections of race, law and equity more specifically, how to keep the topic out of schools. Corcoran used the opportunity to champion the Florida Department of Education s Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking, known as the B.E.S.T. Standards.
Jacksonville community groups are holding a rally to urge the school board to approve recommended name changes of six schools named after Confederate leaders.
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Long before George Floyd was killed – and many Americans turned a serious eye toward acknowledging, understanding and even uprooting systemic racism – English high school teacher Amy Donofrio was encouraging her students in Jacksonville, Florida
to push for equality and empowerment, for justice and personal achievement.
She wanted them to dream and thrive, and she developed an interpersonal road map to assist them in reaching their destiny – be it helping them apply to colleges, decide on a trade or meet with recruiters and enlist in the military.
As an educator at Robert E. Lee High School (we ll get to that abomination in a moment), where the student body is 70% Black, Donofrio also wanted to offer
Florida teachers union president against proposal to remove indoctrination from the classroom
In remarks over the weekend, Florida Education commissioner Richard Corcoran says he s fired and censored teachers for indoctrinating students. Author: Troy Kless (First Coast News) Published: 6:59 PM EDT May 20, 2021 Updated: 7:48 PM EDT May 20, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Separating fact from opinion in teaching is what Florida s education commissioner says he wants to do with a plan to remove what he calls indoctrination from the classroom.
Some groups are worried those changes will leave out critical historical context.
Many classroom educators are opposing the move.
Our view of history is always changing, especially in the past few years of dramatic social change.
Education commissioner says a Duval teacher who hung BLM flag was fired. She wasn’t.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – During a speech at a private conservative college last week, Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran referenced Amy Donofrio, a Jacksonville teacher who generated controversy after she was removed from her classroom in March.
Addressing the crowd at Hillsdale College in Michigan, Corcoran said that not only was Donofrio removed from her classroom but she was also fired.
But the Duval County School District said Donofrio was not fired. Donofrio, who co-founded the nationally recognized EVAC Movement in 2016, was reassigned to paid, non-teaching duties while the district investigates what it described as “several matters” related to allegations of misconduct. Donofrio claims she was taken out of her classroom to stop her from helping her students achieve and for hanging a Black Lives Matter flag over the door of her classroom to