The Florida Department of Education rejected 54 math textbooks from its curriculum on Friday, saying the books were an attempt to ‘indoctrinate’ students – with more than half of them banned for referencing Critical Race Theory (CRT).
The agency tossed out 41 percent of the 132 math textbooks submitted for next year’s curriculum because they were not ‘aligned with Florida standards or included prohibited topics and unsolicited strategies,’ the DOE said in a statement on Friday.
‘Reasons for rejecting textbooks included references to Critical Race Theory (CRT), inclusions of Common Core, and the unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in mathematics,’ the department added, noting that all three learning practices are banned in the state.