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Board reviews first reading of AP African American Studies course; CCAC recommends moving forward
Summary
An educator‑driven proposal for AP African American Studies was presented to the Hillsboro School District board with CCAC recommending the course move forward. The course would be year‑long, aimed at grades 10–12, include four thematic units and a project component, and requires teacher training and curricular alignment with the AP course framework.
At a first reading, the board heard a proposal to add AP African American Studies to the high‑school curriculum. Becky King Smith and educator Anaceli (presented in materials as Anaceli Barragan Gonzalez) described the course as interdisciplinary, grounded in an AP course framework, and organized around four units (origins of the African diaspora; freedom, enslavement and resistance; the practice of freedom; and movements and…
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