Emmitt Glynn teaches to a bunch of Baton Rouge Magnet High School college students on Jan. 30, in Baton Rouge, La. On Wednesday, the College Board launched an up to date framework for its new Advanced Placement African American Studies course, months after the nonprofit testing firm got here below intense scrutiny for participating with conservative critics.

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Emmitt Glynn teaches to a bunch of Baton Rouge Magnet High School college students on Jan. 30, in Baton Rouge, La. On Wednesday, the College Board launched an up to date framework for its new Advanced Placement African American Studies course, months after the nonprofit testing firm got here below intense scrutiny for participating with conservative critics.

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The College Board has launched the up to date framework for its AP African American Studies course, which was embroiled in controversy earlier this 12 months following criticism from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and state officers.

The College Board — which gives Advanced Placement programs that may assist highschool college students earn school credit score — said Wednesday that it arrived on the latest model of the course framework after “intense public debate.”

The new framework is meant for use when the course formally launches within the 2024-2025 faculty 12 months.

“This course is a vibrant introduction to a dynamic field that offers a broader perspective,” Brandi Waters, senior director and program supervisor of African American Studies within the Advanced Placement Program, stated in a press release.

“This is the course I wish I had in high school,” Waters added. “I hope every interested student has the opportunity to take it.”

Months again, Florida’s Department of Education rejected the course, with state officers claiming that it had a “political agenda” that will indoctrinate college students.

The College Board revised the curriculum in February, however that drew criticism too, together with from those that accused the academic physique of caving to the calls for of the conservative governor, who’s now operating for president.

The new framework launched this week excludes some subjects that DeSantis had criticized, such because the Black queer expertise, based on the Miami Herald.

But it additionally features a point out of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s protest of police brutality in the course of the nationwide anthem, in addition to a reference to Black Lives Matter for instance of non-obligatory additional examine within the class.

Neither DeSantis’ workplace nor the Florida Department of Education instantly responded to NPR’s request for a remark.

Roughly 13,000 college students in 700 colleges throughout the U.S. are at the moment piloting the course.