A.G. Gancarski
Ron DeSantis is fleshing out what his educational policy would look like if he’s elected to lead the nation later this year.
One proposed innovation: a nationalized standard for the teaching of history and social studies.
“I think we will create a model curriculum for American civics,” he said during an interview on Iowa’s KCCI.
“We’ve done that in Florida. It’s really taken off. We’ve provided training courses for teachers where they can get a $3,000 bonus. So that’s really a model, I think because we’ve got to teach people about what it means to be an American. We’ve got to teach them about the founding principles of this country. So we will absolutely be leading on that,” he added during the Tuesday broadcast.
The Governor first rolled out civics education innovations during the pandemic, with 2021’s Civic Literacy Excellence Initiative: an ambitious proposal to use $116 million in federal coronavirus relief funds to ramp up civics education.
The one-time money from the CARES Act funded Elementary and Secondary School Relief Fund was intended to make Florida “the national leader in civics education” and “get politicization out of the curriculum.”
The effort targeted so-called “indoctrination factories” and “critical race theory,” and the Governor noted the feds were paying for it.
“We got this money dumped,” DeSantis noted, describing the pandemic allocations. “I could have just spent it and said it was emergency spending.”
During Tuesday’s interview, DeSantis reiterated his desire to eliminate the federal Department of Education, saying that he didn’t expect federal legislation that determined curriculum standards that would potentially expand Florida’s approach to objectionable materials to be expanded nationwide, as it “wouldn’t work well for this country.”
But even though Americans may not see eye to eye on what constitutes obscenity or prurience, the Governor bets that even without a Department of Education, people would appreciate civics guidance from his future presidential administration.
11 comments
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My Take
January 2, 2024 at 7:46 pm
You can bet that fascist madrassa Hillsdale College will be heavily involved. Probably contracted to write and publish the textbook.
“On the eighth day, America was founded by God as the fortress homeland of the white Christian.”
Elmo
January 2, 2024 at 8:16 pm
A hateful religious curriculum. That’s his plan.
PeterH
January 2, 2024 at 8:53 pm
Try to imagine a ‘model curriculum for American civics‘ that endorses and champions a twice impeached four time indicted candidate for the highest office in the USA!
DeSantis must think Americans are THAT STUPID!
Michael K
January 3, 2024 at 9:45 am
He’s counting on stupidity (and hate) for future generations. It’s the only way he and his ilk can win.
MH/Duuuval
January 2, 2024 at 9:34 pm
Can a mere citizen and long-time voter make $3 grand, too?
My Take
January 3, 2024 at 2:16 am
The idea of a civics class ( better yet, lessons introduced at various grades) is not at all a bad one. Do they not exist already? They used to. Required civics in 8th grade I believe. And a goofy required Americanism versus Communism in high school (goofy when taught by the football coach).
But this proposed new one is likely to drip with rightwing bias. Look at who is proposing it.
MH/Duuuval
January 3, 2024 at 12:05 pm
Chris Rufo is Dee’s “civics” Iago, standing beside Dee and pouring poison into his ear.
But, then, an obscure Rufo is now infamous and well-off financially — so he must being doing something right-wing.
My Take
January 4, 2024 at 4:50 am
“America was blessed with the English language–without doubt also Jesus’ choice for His Second Coming–which so much better communicates truth, accuracy, and beauty than the gutteral languages of even Europe.”
MH/Duuuval
January 4, 2024 at 8:54 am
Let me guess: A jackleg preacher said this?
Dont Say FLA
January 4, 2024 at 8:50 am
Syllabus
1st semester: Claiming to be a Christian while doing anything but
2nd semester: Be white or be hung
3rd semester: Condemning sexual deviations out of side your mouth with a [you know what] in the other side your mouth
4th semester: Political Action Committees: their public face
5th semester: Political Action Committees: their real face – calling when the latest social security check is fresh in your list’s hands
6th semester: Books are Baaaaad. Sheeps are Goooood.
7th semester: Flags are for pick up trucks (to distract from the human being dragged to death behind it)
8th semester: Learn to whine like a pro, from a pro
FloriBama Community College
President, Rhonda Dee DeSantis
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