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On the recordJuly 25, 2022
I will have math books sent to my department of education for review, these textbooks. And they will do things like woke math. And I`m thinking to myself, two plus two equals four. It`s not two plus two -- well, let`s have a struggle session over that. How do you feel about it? No, no, no, there`s a right answer here. And it`s not about injecting ideology into concepts like math. So, what we did at the Department of Education was we sent the books back. These textbook companies had no other choice but to take the woke out and send us back normal math books. And so we`re winning.
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Ron DeSantis
Republican · Florida
Source
msnbc.com

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Ron DeSantis discusses his actions regarding educational materials and the removal of ideological content from math textbooks.

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