Did Ron DeSantis really just change the AP African American Studies curriculum?

  • Bias Rating

    -2% Center

  • Reliability

    95% ReliableExcellent

  • Policy Leaning

    12% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    44% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

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"The College Board is a private company, but it's making curricula for use in public schools, and -- though this is complicated by the fact that Florida won't be the only state where the course is taught, as well as the uncertainty around whether the DeSantis complaint had any real effect at all -- it's hardly fair to say a governor (and one with a pretty solid electoral mandate) has no right to weigh in on curricula for the state-run schools of his own state."
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14% Conservative
"Controversial contemporary topics like the Black Lives Matter movement, intersectionality, and queer theory were scaled down or removed entirely, and black conservatism has been added as a research project idea."
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-4% Liberal
"It's not a clearcut moment, as it's neither a straightforward case of market-delivered pressure nor the kind of government meddling that would raise serious civil liberties and constitutional concerns."
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-22% Liberal
"(Ron DeSantis wants to erase black history, says the headline of a New York Times guest essay.)"
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-2% Liberal
"These edits aren't the result of right-wing uproar spearheaded by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), the College Board insists -- and the timeline lends credence to the company's denial."
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-22% Liberal
"And yet it's impossible to see the curriculum critique as DeSantis just doing his job."
Negative
-22% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The College Board is a private company, but it's making curricula for use in public schools, and -- though this is complicated by the fact that Florida won't be the only state where the course is taught, as well as the uncertainty around whether the DeSantis complaint had any real effect at all -- it's hardly fair to say a governor (and one with a pretty solid electoral mandate) has no right to weigh in on curricula for the state-run schools of his own state.
48% : Controversial contemporary topics like the Black Lives Matter movement, intersectionality, and queer theory were scaled down or removed entirely, and "black conservatism" has been added as a research project idea.
39% : It's not a clearcut moment, as it's neither a straightforward case of market-delivered pressure nor the kind of government meddling that would raise serious civil liberties and constitutional concerns.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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