After education officials in Florida faced widespread backlash for approving curriculum standards that minimize slavery and a racist massacre in the state, Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Jacksonville to condemn the state’s “propaganda” and the “extremist, so-called leaders” who support it.
Though she did not name him, the vice president’s speech was directly aimed at Governor Ron DeSantis, whose administration has sought to radically overhaul public education and establish a “parents’ rights” agenda that restricts honest lessons of race and racism, threatens discussion of LGBT+ people and events, targets libraries and reshapes local school boards.
