So... Truth is coming out about FL math books... Only one publisher's book will be used...

[Ohio Joe]

As DeSantis administration rejects textbooks, only one publisher allowed for K-5 math classes in Florida

Historically, when Florida school districts reevaluate which math instructional materials they will use, they have had more than one publisher to choose from.

Now, the only publisher approved by Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Department of Education for K-5 mathematics is Accelerate Learning, a company out of Houston, Texas.

“In the subject area as large as mathematics for grades K through five, it is unusual for there only to be one publisher to choose from," said Billy Epting, assistant superintendent for academic services for Leon County Schools.

--snip--

The Carlyle Group, a global investment firm, acquired Accelerate Learning on Dec. 20, 2018, according to the firm's website.

During that time, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin was the co-CEO of the firm. After 25 years with the company, Youngkin resigned in 2020 to run for office in Virginia.

The first thing Youngkin did as governor of Virginia was sign an executive order to "end the use of inherently divisive concepts, including critical race theory, and restoring excellence in K-12 public education in the commonwealth," a measure that's comparable to DeSantis' "Stop WOKE Act."

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2022/04/19/desantis-textbooks-florida-woke-one-publisher-allowed-k-5-math-classes/7357965001/

Really... It makes sense. The entire thing is a scam to make money. They sacrifice children to keep people stupid and rake in the bucks off the tax payers.

And nobody in the press will hold their feet to the fire over it. Pretty fucking annoying.

[Nevilledog]

1. Everything is corrupt.

I think most of us here expected something like this.

FTFM = Follow the fucking money

[erronis]

13. Sadly this paints all governments, all politicians as corrupt.

That's why it is so hard to get any decent person to run for school boards, local governments, dog-catchers, even US congress.

The emphasis is on decent.

There are plenty of the RW snake-oil hucksters that will fill these roles. There is a lot of money from RW/libertarian groups to fund the media.

Unless we can figure out how to combat the paid-for vitriol with facts and truth, we can't compete. We won't win by getting down in the muck with these creatures.

[Wounded Bear]

2. As always, follow the money...nt

[Walleye]

3. I knew it! I certainly hope they follow the money to find out who's getting the kickbacks

I’m betting DeSantis has friends or relatives in this company. This smelled so much like a filthy corruption scheme. And sure enough it is. Stinks. With Republicans a conflict of interest never a problem

[dchill]

4. I'm trying to remember...

How do you spell grift, again?

[momta]

9. R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N n/t

[YoshidaYui]

57. This!

fuck them!

[Jamesm9164]

5. Cut out the middle person

Having taught math for many years, text books are not relavant. Good students do well despite them and others ignore them.
Just another way to justify, "wink, wink, nudge, nudge>'

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

35. I am not sure I agree that text books are not relevant.

When I was in high school, I took UICSM math, University of Illinois Committee on School Mathematics. It was the early 60s, and the texts were paperbound workbooks. It was a WONDERFUL program. We proved everything. I still remember a lot of specific content nearly 60 years later. And more than thirty years after taking my last high school UICSM math class, I tested into algebra 2 when I needed to take math classes at my community college. And I'd sit in class, listening to the instructor, and things from all those years ago would bubble up in my mind.

Some day I hope to meet someone else that has at least heard of UICSM, other than those I went to high school with.

Probably, texts books don't matter as much for grade school math, but for algebra and beyond, I think they do make a difference.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Doesn't the Carlyle Group have connections to the BFEE?

Bush family evil empire

[JHB]

11. Connections? Practically an olf-fashioned phone system switchboard

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From 2004:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2004/05/22/bush-s-crusades-and-the-carlyle-group/

Even Pappy Bush stands in line to profit handsomely from his son’s war making. The former president is on retainer with the Carlyle Group, the largest privately held defense contractor in the nation. Carlyle is run by Frank Carlucci, who served as the National Security advisor and Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan. Carlucci has his own embeds in the current Bush administration. At Princeton, his college roommate was Donald Rumsfeld. They’ve remained close friends and business associates ever since. When you have friends like this, you don’t need to hire lobbyists..

Bush Sr. serves as a kind of global emissary for Carlyle. The ex-president doesn’t negotiate arms deals; he simply opens the door for them, a kind of high level meet-and-greet. His special area of influence is the Middle East, primarily Saudi Arabia, where the Bush family has extensive business and political ties. According to an account in the Washington Post, Bush Sr. earns around $500,000 for each speech he makes on Carlyle’s behalf.

One of the Saudi investors lured to Carlyle by Bush was the BinLaden Group, the construction conglomerate owned by the family of Osama bin Laden. According to an investigation by the Wall Street Journal, Bush convinced Shafiq Bin Laden, Osama’s half brother, to sink $2 million of BinLaden Group money into Carlyle’s accounts. In a pr move, the Carlyle group cut its ties to the BinLaden Group in October 2001.

One of Bush Sr.’s top sidekicks, James Baker, is also a key player at Carlyle. Baker joined the weapons firm in 1993, fresh from his stint as Bush’s secretary of state and chief of staff. Packing a briefcase of global contacts, Baker parlayed his connections with heads of state, generals and international tycoons into a bonanza for Carlyle. After Baker joined the company, Carlyle’s revenues more than tripled.

[LT Barclay]

23. So, the conclusion I'm drawing is that this is DeSantis trying to kiss up to the Carlyle group

for his shot at the presidency. Of course, I'm just a conspiracy theorist.
Rare to see this so out in the open.

[LymphocyteLover]

50. that's who I assoicate them with

[Hortensis]

7. I assumed money for someone was in it somewhere. They never

seem to miss a chance to build monetary gain into their corruption and destruction of our institutions.

[Evolve Dammit]

8. How conveeeenient.

[geardaddy]

45. ...

[ashredux]

10. Yep...they are just crooks in a coat and tie

[keroro gunsou]

52. "a man...

...in a nice suit with a briefcase can steal more than any thug with a gun." - don corleone

[Takket]

12. what an amazing coincidence!!!!!!!!!!

[Jamesm9164]

14. The Carlyle Group. Zombies are everywhere. NT

[BigmanPigman]

15. Based on my experience as a teacher

most educational publishers get a kickback from the school districts. Teachers are given several publishers' textbooks to adopt and no matter what they adopt they are rarely ever used in the way it was intended. It really pissed me off that so much money was spent when after only a few years are instructed to throw them out (almost new) books ended up in the school dumpster when the district decides on a different path.

[Phoenix61]

16. So they built a book with no idea if the state would pick

Right… “According to the Accelerate Learning's website, the math book for Florida was "built from the ground up to the Florida B.E.S.T. by practicing educators using the flexible 5E lesson model."

[qazplm135]

17. trying to do what the Civil War failed to do

create two countries.

[tclambert]

18. Are all the story problems based on Noah's Ark?

Only even numbers allowed. And you can't discuss fractions because the fraction 3/5 might come up.

[3catwoman3]

32. I keep trying to figure out how......

...a math book can have anything at all in it even remotely related to race. Talk about a stretch.

[wnylib]

37. Terms and illustrations in word problems is my guess.

People and situations reflecting diversity of race, ethnicity, and culture.

[Ingersollman]

42. And

pi=3.

[Solly Mack]

19. K&R

[budkin]

20. Sick

But not surprising in the slightest.

[SunSeeker]

21. K & R for exposure.

[Stuart G]

22. Thank You for Posting & Sharing With Us...K and R

[Baitball Blogger]

24. Teaching white supremacy in a trifecta move.

First they stated their intentions, Anti-gay, anti-CRT, which essentially meant anti-minorities (wake up South Florida).

And then they found a way to make sure that the books would indoctrinate the kids properly AND they found a way to transfer public money to their own kind.

[yardwork]

25. Youngkin. Figures. It's all a scam to make money.

[Ruby the Liberal]

26. Yeah, these look like threads in need of pulling

Great find - thanks for the post.

[Thunderbeast]

27. SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE

[tiredtoo]

28. " And nobody in the press will hold their feet to the fire over it."

The press is on the take.

[packman]

29. Only one acceptable publisher ---SSSUUURRREEE

Something is stinking here folks. Gotta love Florida, the penis of America dangling down and stroked by every crooked poll in the state.

[niyad]

30. Let's see. . .the bushes were involved with the carlyle group, and chimpy's brother

marvin was running some kind of "education" company. . .Is there any connection?

[OMGWTF]

31. The love of money is the root of all evil.

[keep_left]

33. Thom Hartmann has covered this topic on his show numerous times.

Many are aware of how a few billionaires and their fundamentalist allies hijacked the school textbook approval process in Texas. Because of the state's size and the early date of approval that was chosen (probably deliberately), other states see little choice but to follow Texas in whatever decisions are made about the selection of textbooks. But the real problem isn't just a few asshole fundamentalists and busybodies in Texas, it's that the textbook publishing companies have been swallowing each other up in mergers and acquisitions (many of them hostile) since the '80s when that all became legal.

If there was actual market competition and discipline, it would be impossible--or at least far less likely--for things like this to happen.

[patphil]

34. My God, they're grooming the kids to only know their math!

Their grooming the kids, and their parents, to expect an inferior, limited education; to accept a world where choice only exists when the ones in power make the choice for you.
They're grooming the kids to be brain-dead zombies, since to be awake, ie. woke, is somehow wrong.
They're grooming the next generation to accept the Republican party as the only party worthy to rule the nation.
They're grooming the next generation to not know the history of how they dismantled the Republic and installed a fascist dictatorship in its place.

[Hulk]

36. So g'damned corrupt!

Just makes me want to spit!

[IronLionZion]

38. Anything that doesn't enrich wealthy Republicans is CRT and grooms children

it's a simple definition.

[The Jungle 1]

39. So get your ass out of our public schools.

If you do not like what is being taught in our public schools then home school or send your brats to private school.
I can't believe they use our socialist public schools anyway. I thought they hated socialism?

[twodogsbarking]

41. Calling children brats is not at all called for.

[The Jungle 1]

47. Oh well dogs do bark and some kids are brats.

Brat: noun DEROGATORY•HUMOROUS
a child, typically a badly behaved one.

Our tendency to be overly sensitive is a trait conservatives consistently mock.

[twodogsbarking]

55. It is a derogatory term and you generalized it.

Then you rationalized.

[haele]

56. Their kids don't go to public schools, unless it's a prestigious charter or magnet.

The GOP wants to set it up so that they can control who gets into those public charters or magnets (tests to qualify, and then lotteries that can be manipulated), and everyone else gets stuck in the public schools which are defunded to the point of failure.

Why should anyone who isn't part of the financial, Party, or moral elite deserve an education beyond 6th grade? It's not like real Doctors, Scientists, or anyone that qualifies to be in one of the Professions ever come from those poor trashy folks who don't own a bootstrap, let alone have the ability to buy one.

If the ungodly liberals or poors don't like the average public schools or can't get through the lottery system for the good ones, they can always homeschool.
The GOP truly believes this. Link it to the return of Child Labor, and they're seeing themselves back in the Gilded Age. That's what they want.
Middle Class stuck in semi-servility, depending on Patronage, and fungible poor that die off before they get too useless to squeeze another dime of productivity from. Women -even their own daughters - as useful breeders to care for or at best, "represent" their men.

A great Plantation vision if you're a well-off White man.

Haele

[The Jungle 1]

59. It is absolutely true that republicans are actively working to destroy the public education system.

They want education privatized with all tax money to be funneled to private schools.
What we need to bring up and remember is how nixon and reagan destroyed healthcare in America when they allowed profit in healthcare and healthcare insurance. In 1973, Nixon, as a personal favor for his friend Edgar Kaiser, signed the Health Maintenance Organization Act which allowed hospitals, insurance companies, clinics and even doctors to function as for-profit entities. By the late 1990s, 68 percent or less of premiums paid actually went toward medical care; the rest was paid in compensation to executives and insurance salespeople. You just spit up your coffee didn't ya. The entire system has shifted from healthcare for Americans to PROFIT. reagan took it one step further with his deregulation lie. He stuck a knife in our healthcare system.
REPUBLICANS ARE DOING THE SAME THING TO EDUCATION. Open your eyes America.

The private schools in my area demonstrate no better outcome than the public schools. CTR is just another fake issue (look squirrel). The result is that teachers are quitting in droves. So the problem is it is working!!!!

[Hugin]

40. So the whole thing is a grift?

Figures.

[jcgoldie]

43. You mean the GOP is using the culture war...

...which they drummed up out of thin air to funnel money to their cronies?? I am shocked!

[2naSalit]

44. No surprise there.

It was becoming obvious that something like this was involved. So do they print bibles too?

[Snoopy 7]

46. Bush started it

Don’t forget when he Bush was president and he started changing school curriculum it was his brother’s company who had the material his brother made all that money

[Nululu]

48. Gruesome to militarize education

So incredibly corrupt, the Carlyle Group.

[Gator.Veteran]

49. And if that wasn't enough!

Gerrymandering at its finest. https://www.wctv.tv/2022/04/20/update-florida-senate-passes-desantis-redistricting-plan/

[LymphocyteLover]

51. Dem candidates in FL have to make this an issue and then the people of FL can decide if they really

like deSantis' hate-mongering and cronyism

[Pacifist Patriot]

53. Yet I'll be gobsmacked if FLDems go hard after this during the campaign.

Then again, we're talking about a state that didn't care much about Scott's money grubbing illegal activities in the healthcare industry. Why would our voters care about who makes money off of educational materials.

Sorry, not in a good place with respect to my own state today.

[Irish_Dem]

54. We are becoming like Russia. A country run by mobsters.

[Scalded Nun]

58. It is ALWAYS about the grift

The first question anyone needs to ask about anything involving the GOP is 'who stands to profit?'

...and the so-called mainstream 'liberal media' never even asks.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

60. For this thread

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