On Friday, the Florida Department of Education announced that it would be rejecting 41 percent of all proposed math textbooks from the curriculum of the 2022-2023 academic year, as these books contained troubling elements such as reference to Critical Race Theory (CRT).

According to CNN, 54 out of the 132 textbook submissions were denied access to the state’s list of approved material after failing to adhere to the standards of content outlined by Florida’s new laws limiting explicit or controversial material being taught in the classroom, including the state’s new parental rights law.

The press release from the Department of Education stated that the books in question were found to have included “Common Core, and the unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in mathematics.” The highest concentration of problematic books were found in the grades of K-5, where 71 percent of proposed books were found to not be up to the new standards of education in the state.