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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

Republican congressman faces wrath of DeSantis campaign with call to ‘correct’ Black history standards

AP

Republican US Rep Byron Donalds has repeatedly echoed other GOP officials in a specious crusade against “critical race theory” and “woke” indoctrination in American schools.

But on 26 July, the Florida congressman called on Florida’s Department of Education to “correct” newly approved curriculum guidelines for middle school students to learn how enslaved people “developed skills” that could be “applied for personal benefit”.

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