DeSantis' top education official agreed to attend a town hall but ended up avoiding it.
The panel, including state Sens. Shevrin “Shev” Jones , left, and Rosalind Osgood , spent more than two hours addressing Florida’s Black history standards. | Phil Sears/AP PhotoTALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Black elected officials, religious leaders, educators and community members railed against Florida’s controversial new standards for teaching African American history Thursday evening at a town hall in Miami that was supposed to feature the DeSantis administration’s top education official.
“Ron DeSantis knew that this was going on, Manny Diaz knew that this was going on,” Fedrick Ingram, secretary-treasurer with the American Federation of Teachers and a former state union leader, said at the event, going as far to call Diaz a “coward” for avoiding the meeting. State education officials tout the standards for teaching the “good, the bad and the ugly” about American history and slavery, yet the standards were met with fierce criticism from Florida’s largest teachers union and other groups, attention that quickly gained momentum nationally, spreading to some Black conservatives who also opposed.
“There was nothing sudden about my inability to attend Senator Jones’s town hall,” Diaz wrote on social media Wednesday. “As I told the senator last week, I will be visiting schools throughout the state to welcome back students, parents and teachers for the first day of school.”
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