Just a few weeks after a similar move by Virginia [1] was met with controversy, Florida has also adopted achievement standards based on race and ethnicity [2], the Huffington Post reports. Approved this week by the Florida Board of Education, the new race-based standards affect all 2.6 million students that attend the state’s 3,629 public schools. The mandate stipulates that by 2018, 90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of white students, 81 percent of Hispanic students and 74 percent of black students are to be reading at or above grade level. The state also wants 86 percent of white students, 92 percent of Asians, 80 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of blacks to be at or above their math grade level [3], according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. The new goals are required under Florida’s waiver from No Child Left Behind. Many expressed skepticism over the race-based targets…