DeSantis Seeks To Replace SATs With “Christian” Testing

The Miami Herald reports:

As Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Republican leaders explore alternatives to the College Board’s AP classes and tests, top state officials have been meeting with the founder of an education testing company supporters say is focused on the “great classical and Christian tradition.”

The Classic Learning Test, founded in 2015, is used primarily by private schools and home-schooling families and is rooted in the classical education model, which focuses on the “centrality of the Western tradition.”

The founder of the company, Jeremy Tate, said the test is meant to be an alternative to the College Board-administered SAT exam, which he says has become “increasingly ideological” in part because it has “censored the entire Christian-Catholic intellectual tradition” and other “thinkers in the history of Western thought.”

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Top state officials have been meeting with the founder of an education testing company supporters say is focused on the “great classical and Christian tradition.”

Uhhh ever heard of separation of church and state?! https://t.co/nnseHpuZpc

— Rep. Anna V. Eskamani 🔨 (@AnnaForFlorida) February 17, 2023

As I predicted, Desantis is meeting (per Miami Herald) with an organization that delivers “classical Christian” curriculum as an alternative to AP courses/SATs. This’ll mollify opposition to his abandoning AP, that has been focused only on tuition $$ saved with AP courses

— julie ingersoll (@julieingersoll) February 17, 2023

As DeSantis and Florida GOP leaders explore alternatives to the College Board’s AP classes and tests, top state officials have been meeting with the founder of an education testing company focused on the “great classical and Christian tradition.” https://t.co/eh8jF7iXhg

— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) February 18, 2023