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Although the College Board’s revised AP African-American Studies (APAAS) curriculum is a very real — if incomplete — win for Ron DeSantis, Florida’s governor has not yet declared victory and accepted the restructured APAAS course. On the contrary, as reported by the Daily Caller, DeSantis’s Department of Education (FDOE) has just sent a remarkable — and defiant — letter to the College Board.

That letter does two things. First, it requests further information about a possible end run by the College Board around Florida’s Stop WOKE Act, which bars the promotion of critical race theory (CRT) in Florida’s K–12 classrooms. Unless the College Board replies satisfactorily to FDOE’s inquiry, Florida will likely continue to reject APAAS. Second, the FDOE’s letter provides a detailed timeline of its APAAS-related communications with the College Board over the past year. That timeline calls into question the College Board’s repeated public claims that DeSantis and the Stop WOKE Act had no impact whatever on the recently revised APAAS curriculum.

DeSantis’s tenacity in the face of the huge uproar from the left over his already considerable APAAS victory is plenty consequential. By continuing to expose the College Board’s distortions, along with its interventions in what are by right state and local curricular decisions, DeSantis is shaking America’s education establishment to its foundations. That establishment has...

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