The DeSantis administration claimed the course “lacks educational value.”

Recently, the College Board has been piloting advanced placement courses in several high schools around the United States that teach modern and relevant topics. One of these courses is an African American history course that seeks to explore the history of racial diversity in the country.

“The interdisciplinary course reaches into a variety of fields — literature, the arts and humanities, political science, geography and science — to explore the vital contributions and experiences of African Americans,” explains a College Board description of the course.

This course, however, has been summarily rejected by the Florida Board of Education, with a representative of the BOE saying that it is “inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.”

“If the course comes into compliance and incorporates historically accurate content, the department will reopen the discussion,” the representative told ABC.

This rejection follows the recent trends set by recently reelected Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who created the currently-blocked “Stop WOKE” Act and the Parental Rights in Education law, better known as the “Don’t Say Gay” law.

Critics of DeSantis and his policies have expressed concerns that his efforts to curb allegedly “woke” practices in schools, business, and government amounts to no more than censorship of contrasting ideologies and identities.

“Far from indoctrinating students into a so-called ‘woke agenda,’ educators often struggle to teach about the history and origins of racism … [Stop WOKE] would deepen this learning gap as educators, understandably fearful of public threats to police them, seek to avoid the penalties embedded in the law for teaching about prohibited topics such as the factual disparities in wealth, education and housing for Black people in this country,” a representative of the Southern Poverty Law Center said in response to the “Stop WOKE” act.