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Vice President Kamala Harris called Florida's new teaching standard of African American history said "an attempt to gaslight us."

RELATEDDeSantis proposes measures aimed at ‘woke’ ideologies in education

While the state this week approved its own African American history standards that officials have lauded as the anti-woke approach to teaching about Black experiences in the United States, advocates say the standards whitewash or gloss over key aspects of that story.

The upshot: Potentially hundreds, or thousands, of Florida high school students whose hopes of taking a complex, college-level version of African American history have been dashed amid a political tug-of-war.

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