The department in an email provided information about the textbook adoption process and confirmed that textbook companies can appeal the rejections.Д«ut the Democratic Governors Association on Monday called for the state to release information about the rejections. The Department of Education did not provide specifics on why the textbooks were rejected when asked Monday by The News Service of Florida. And itвЂ™s not because they don't want to release, itвЂ™s just because these are textbooks and this is how they do it,вЂќ DeSantis told reporters during an appearance in Jacksonville. ThatвЂ™s just not been their standard of practice. So, I would be perfectly fine with doing that. And right now, whatвЂ™s in their textbooks is considered proprietary information. What they have told me is that there is an appeal process that the textbook publishers can go through. вЂњI would say, one, talk to the Department of Education for more background on it. вЂњIt seems that some publishers attempted to slap a coat of paint on an old house built on the foundation of Common Core, and indoctrinating concepts like race essentialism, especially, bizarrely, for elementary school students,вЂќ DeSantis said in the Friday news release.ДЄsked Monday for specifics about how the rejected textbooks violated state standards in those three categories, DeSantis said he would like for that information to be made public but he вЂњrespects the processвЂќ that has kept the education department from releasing it. Textbooks for kindergarten through fifth-grade students were rejected at the highest rate, with 71 percent of materials turned away. The governor billed the new education guidelines as a replacement for the politically unpopular Common Core standards that were used in the past in Florida. Social and emotional learning is a set of processes by which students learn to do things such as manage emotions, вЂњfeel and show empathy for othersвЂќ and maintain relationships, according to the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments, which is funded by the U.S Department of Education.ДeSantis introduced the stateвЂ™s Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking Standards, or BEST Standards, in 2020. Democrats have alleged political motivations as DeSantis tries to appeal to conservative voters.Д¬ritical race theory is based on the premise that racism is embedded in American institutions, and has been a target of DeSantis, state legislative leaders and other Republicans across the country. Don't miss a beat!Д«ut the news release, which was titled, вЂњFlorida Rejects PublishersвЂ™ Attempts to Indoctrinate Students,вЂќ did not provide examples of questions or other details that would show why the books were rejected.

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