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A rival Advanced Placement curriculum is offering a dangerous view of the Constitution and America's founders

Published May 14, 2026 6:45AM (EDT)

Florida's new high school history course presents the nation's founders as opposed to slavery (Getty Images)

Florida has long been a laboratory for autocracy . Several of the Trump administration’s most extreme policies were piloted there, including aggressive immigration enforcement, the systematic rollback of civil rights and voter suppression.

Now the Sunshine State is offering a new experiment: a high school history course offering a conservative interpretation of American history and a corrective to the official Advanced Placement U.S. History curriculum, which more than half a million students took last year, and that most historians and educators consider to be ideologically well-balanced.…