ST. LOUIS – After being met with growing opposition, a St. Louis school district said it will continue to offer elective Black history classes — a reversal from a controversial move by the school district board to end two courses.
The decision comes after the Francis Howell School District board voting 5-2 last week to no longer offer the Black History and Black Literature courses that had been available to students at high schools within the school district since 2021.
However, the swift reversal by Francis Howell School District board would first need to approve a new curriculum “that is rigorous and largely politically neutral,” the board president Adam Bertrand and Superintendent Kenneth Roumpos said in a statement Thursday to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The decision to offer the classes under a revised curriculum is still receiving pushback from opponents who were against the school district’s decision to end the courses.
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