Thread by @JuddLegum

1. It's official: @GovRonDeSantis perpetrated a hoax, falsely claiming that dozens of math book publishers attempted to indoctrinate Florida students with Critical Race Theory

He knew this was false

But figured he could get away with it

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@GovRonDeSantis 2. On April 15 the FL Dept of Education issued a release: "Florida Rejects Publishers’ Attempts to Indoctrinate Students"

DeSantis said publishers included "indoctrinating concepts like race essentialism, especially, bizarrely, for elementary school students

That was a lie

3. On April 21, Popular Information obtained 8 of the rejected textbooks and found no examples of CRT or race essentialism for high school students or anyone else.

We now know a lot more. And it completely exposes DeSantis.

popular.info/p/inside-the-d…

4. The Florida Department of Education has now released THOUSANDS of pages documenting the review of these textbooks.

Of those 70 reviewers only ONE REVIEWER complained of CRT in any math textbook

And she has an agenda.

orlandosentinel.com/news/education…

5. The reviewer who complained about CRT is a member of @Moms4Liberty. This is a group that is trying to ban biographies of MLK Jr. in Tennessee because that is supposedly indoctrinating students with CRT

popular.info/p/moms-for-lib…

@Moms4Liberty 6. Chris Allen, the @Moms4Liberty member, complained of CRT in two high school math textbooks.

She cites "Multiple examples of the
author pushing his opinion
about topic[s] relating to global
warming"

Other reviewers of the same textbooks found no CRT

7. But even if you accept that Allen's analysis is correct (it's not) it still doesn't back up DeSantis' claim that these math publishers are trying to indoctrinate ELEMENTARY SCHOOL students with CRT

That was false and DeSantis either knew or should have known it was false

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9. Let's dive in a little deeper. How did DeSantis and Florida claim there were dozens of textbooks seeking to indoctrinate students when there was a single reviewer who claimed two textbooks contained CRT?

10. Reviewers evaluated each criteria on a scale of 1-5. Florida concluded that anything less than a 5 on the "CRT" category meant the textbook contained CRT — EVEN IF THE REVIEWER EXPLICITLY SAID THERE WAS NO CRT FOUND

11. Something else of note. Several of the people reviewing these Florida math textbooks have no expertise in math.

At least one doesn't live in Florida.

He's a right-wing activist from Michigan

abcactionnews.com/news/state/flo…