Pritzker (D-IL) warns College Board against any AP course changes to appease DeSantis

[In It to Win It]

Chicago Sun Times

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is going to battle with the national College Board over what he calls “political grandstanding” by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The Chicago Democrat is warning the nonprofit that oversees the Advanced Placement program that Illinois will reject a revised African American Studies course if it doesn’t include “a factual accounting of history, including the role played by black queer Americans.”

Pritzker sent a sharply worded letter to the board over its decision to revise the Advanced Placement course in African American Studies after the Florida governor — and likely GOP presidential candidate — blocked Florida high schools from offering the course because it included segments on “queer theory” and “abolishing prisons,” among other topics.

Pritzker objected to any change “in order to fit Florida’s racist and homophobic laws.”

“In Illinois, we reject any curriculum modifications designed to appease extremists like the Florida Governor and his allies,” Pritzker wrote in the letter obtained by the Sun-Times.

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[FakeNoose]

1. Thank you Governor Pritzker

Gov. Pritzker's letter (downloaded from Chicago Sun-Times)

[Just A Box Of Rain]

2. Yes indeed!

[SheltieLover]

3. Excellent! 👏👏👏👏

[ShazzieB]

4. I am so proud of my governor!

Fricking paywall won't let me read the whole article. *grumble* But I got enough of the gist to be proud of Pritzker for the umpty-umpth time. SO glad I voted forhim!

[Celerity]

17. non paywalled link

https://archive.is/f4d7U

Use this going forward:

https://archive.is/

Cheers

Cel

[ShazzieB]

18. Thanks!

[Phoenix61]

5. Hopefully he's just the first of many. nt

[ProfessorGAC]

6. He's Bulletproof Now

He handily won a second term & he's either going to ride off as a 2 term governor or he'll be popular enough to win a third term.
Four more years of fiscal success could make him awfully popular.
He's in a position to pop off at a tool like DeSantis, so he might as well do it. And, he did.

[walkingman]

7. 20+ States mandate Holocaust education and yet Florida is fighting an African American history

class. Racism is systemic in America and our education system is doing a poor job in changing that. I think a lot of it is generational and that has to change.

[live love laugh]

8. That's MY Governor!❤️

[ancianita]

10. Used to be mine!

Now I'm stuck with sleezy Santis.

[Atticus]

12. Mine, too and I am proud to claim him. nt

[mushroomhunter]

13. mine too

So happy he won his election -

[justhanginon]

14. Same here. One of the best votes I have ever cast!

[ancianita]

9. Go, JB! Excellent to join Gov Newsome in attacking this FL governor.

It's bad enough that Texas controls so much in high school textbook adoption; no way is Florida going to force the rest of states to go along with its legalized stupidity.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. I'd love to hear a chorus of condemnation against DeSantis. Thank you Gov Pritzker!

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

16. me too

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

15. someone has got to stand up to nazi thug Desantis

[Skittles]

19. DeFascist looks and acts like a fucking brat

I cannot stand him any more than I can stand Donald Fucking Trump, they both make me SICK.

[Arazi]

20. I'd put Pritzker near the top of any future Presidential candidate list

He’s a sleeper but has the right stuff

This is a boss move and so spot on

[mopinko]

21. i dunno. he's too nice.

he’d be great, but i cant see him winning the primary.

glad he uses his bully pulpit, tho. and he can have as many terms as he wants.