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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kelly Rissman

School board backs down from plans to scrap Black history courses after backlash

AP

A Missouri school board will allow Black history and literature classes after mounting backlash sparked by its initial plan to eliminate the courses.

Francis Howell School Board will permit high school students across the predominantly white district to enrol in these classes in the next school year if the board approves of a curriculum “that is rigorous and largely politically neutral,” said a statement from the school board president and superintendent sent to the St Louis Post-Dispatch.

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