One of the four Democrats who voted against a bill dealing with how the Advanced Placement U.S. history course is taught in Oklahoma says he doesn't think the controversy is over.
State Rep. Dan Fisher said Thursday he's discussing revisions with the House Common Education Committee's chairman to make sure it doesn't threaten the popular program.
“Representative Fisher said he wants to reword the bill,” state Representative Shane Stone told MSNBC yesterday. “I do expect it to come back with many of the same teeth just looking to kill AP U.S. history.”
The freshman Oklahoma City Democrat says he's worried about setting a benchmark other states could imitate.
“It hasn’t happened in Oklahoma, we’ll say, ‘What other states has it happened in?’,” Stone said. “So it could be something that other states look to, to take out AP U.S. history in their own state.”
The first version of the bill directed the State Board of Education to adopt a new program and test to replace the current AP U.S. History program.
Fisher claims the curriculum presents a liberalized view of America as anti-free enterprise and places too much emphasis on the negative elements of the country's history.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report
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