Only ONE publisher eligible to supply FL textbooks now. Guess who??

[Roland99]

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Judi Stern Levine @DobbsGirl1

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I have never EVER subscribed to or believed in any conspiracy theory in my life. That being said, what I'm about to say, I know, but please hear me out. The new Florida law, HB7, which forbids CRT from being taught in math classes from K-12 here in Florida has resulted in only
ONE publisher of textbooks in the country, Houston-based Accelerated Learning to be eligible to supply books to the State of Florida, out of ALL of the publishers of textbooks in the country! When I first heard this last night, my first thought was who is this company and how is
it that they are the only ones? Well, this morning on the front page of the Palm Beach Post it all seemed to fall into place. The company, Accelerated Learning, is a Houston-based text book publishing company. My thoughts immediately went to what is their connection to

Ron DeSantis and the Republican Party? It turns out that up until 2020, the CEO of The Carlyle Group, the global investment group that acquired Accelerated in 2018, was none other than the newly-elected government of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin. He had been with Carlyle for 25 years

Since taking office, Youngkin has pushed legislation that mimics Florida's almost to the letter. Meaning, the company that he was affiliated with until running for government, would benefit from legislation he's pushing through. How many other Republican states are going to do

the same thing, only get their textbooks from this one company? Here's hoping that some industrious report does a really deep dive into the connection between DeSantis and this company to see how much they have contributed to his re-election campaign and to Youngkin's campaign.

Like I said, I have never subscribed to conspiracy theories and I know this sounds like one, but I truly believe this warrants an investigation.

[Phoenix61]

1. It's not theory, it's fact. nt

[FBaggins]

13. It's neither theory nor fact. It's incorrect

Here's the list of approved textbooks. Several publishers are listed and Accelerate Learning is only on the list three times (though one appears to be for six textbooks)

https://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/5574/urlt/2122MathAdoptedMaterials.pdf

[Phoenix61]

14. Accelerate Learning is the only regular math text

book approved for grades k thru 5. They also have the only book for Foundational Math skills k-2. Accelerate Learning and McGraw Hill is approved for accelerated math grade 3. Savvas is approved for accelerated math grades 3 and 4.
One company is supply all the math text books for all the elementary schools in the state of florida, excluding advanced math grades 3 and 4.

[FBaggins]

16. Which is dramatically different from what was claimed

"has resulted in only ONE publisher of textbooks in the country, Houston-based Accelerated Learning to be eligible to supply books to the State of Florida, out of ALL of the publishers of textbooks in the country!"

vs. "One publisher was selected for one subject for K-5" - (in a subject that has almost nothing to do with the issues under debate)


It's also not all that unusual. K-5 math is probably the most sequential set of textbooks out there. By which I mean that it really matters what was in the 2nd grade textbook before you select the 3rd grade textbook. I would imagine that most counties have a single publisher's textbooks for K-5 math so that if you transfer from one school to another within the county... you don't have a gap in the curriculum.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. What a fucking racket!

[Initech]

3. Gerorge Carlin was right. It's a big club and we're not in it.

[yorkster]

4. Couldn't see Rachel tonight.

Hope she covers this. The Carlyle Group (Youngkin) connection is creepy as hell.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Twitter reply:

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[argyl]

6. So they're teaching CRT in grade school math classes in Florida?.

I find that really hard to believe. I got an MS in Environmental Sciences and I'd never heard of CRT.
Course that was a good while ago so maybe books on CRT are mandatorily given to kids who haven't learned to read yet.
Or maybe it's making Mt. Whitney out of a molehill. Tossing nothing to the MAGAts and calling it red meat.
Add " woke" and " wokeism" to this BS the
Cruzes et. al. are tossing out.
Being aware of the horrible injustices white, mainly Anglo, Americans have perpetrated for hundreds of years. Can't have white American kids knowing that. Even though the rest of the world does.
And being aware of the injustices caused by so few with so much and speaking out against it is a bad thing also.
There's one advantage to being a MAGAt. You don't have to think, just do as you're told.
Lot easier than thinking for yourself.

[soldierant]

7. There have been conspiracies in history. But this doesn't soung like one.

It just sounds like a racket. That's not the same as a conspiracy.

Historically, I can only think off the top of my head of conspiracies which failed, like the Gunpowder Plot and the plot to kill Rasputin. I expect there are a number of conspiracies which succeeded and which we have no idea that they were conspiracies, or maybe even that they happened.

Rackets, on the other hand, are common as grass. And often succeed.

[Roland99]

8. Rackets aplenty in the FL GOP

[druidity33]

10. When conspiracies work...

you never hear about them, they become hidden. That's probably why you can't name a successful one.

[soldierant]

18. That actually did occur to me

but I didn't want to disregard the possibility that really good investigative historians might be able to smoke some out.

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Buy-Partisan Wealth Management born if a common idea...

“Money trumps peace.”

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/10023454166

[lindysalsagal]

11. Pearson and best decoy perfected this scheme decades ago

Now it looks like they have competition. Pearson wrote the annual exams and the textbooks and study guides.

[Novara]

15. ALWAYS FOLLOW THE MONEY

I had always suspected this was just smoke and mirrors to benefit these corrupt motherfucker cronies in the textbook business.

[Hassler]

17. The one that donated to wRong?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. Who is surprised by this?

DeathSantis favored the donor who made one of the COVID drugs