ORLANDO, Fla. — Only one reviewer who dug into the math books publishers hoped to sell to Florida schools complained there was “critical race theory” embedded in the texts, and she was a member of the conservative Moms for Liberty group who looked at just two high school books, according to state documents released late Thursday.
Most of the other 70 reviewers found little to suggest the more than 130 textbooks for kindergarten-to-12th-grade classes strayed from their subjects or aimed to teach students about “critical race theory” and other prohibited topics, according to thousands of pages of textbook reviews released by the Florida Department of Education.
“It is a math textbook. I found no evidence of any instruction or indoctrination of social issues,” wrote Carl Clark, on a review of a book for a high school class “mathematics for data and financial literacy.”
