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Under DeSantis, Florida has seen a wide number of bills relating to restricting education in the state. The most notable of these bills was the Parental Rights in Education Act, a law which restricted the instruction of homosexuality, gender identity, and various other LGBT+ issues and content within public elementary schools up to third grade.
The head of the Florida Department of Education said the state will fight the federal government's new interpretation of the civil-rights law known as Title IX because of its expansion of ...
In 1995 [6] (or 1996 – sources vary [3]) a National Bioethics Advisory Commission was established, opining on issues such as cloning of humans, and research involving mentally disabled. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] In 2001, The President's Council on Bioethics was founded to consider bioethics issues, such as stem cell research . [ 13 ]
Bioethics has also benefited from the process philosophy developed by Alfred North Whitehead. [26] [27] Another discipline that discusses bioethics is the field of feminism; the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics has played an important role in organizing and legitimizing feminist work in bioethics. [28]
But a parents' rights provision that would have let failing third graders move on to fourth was stricken.
Nearly 300 Black churches in Florida are offering Black history lessons in response to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ effort to limit how race and other subjects are taught in schools.
In 2021 the Florida Board of Education prohibited teaching about critical race theory or the 1619 Project in public schools. [1]In April 2023, the Board of Education extended the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act, often called the "Don't Say Gay" Act, from covering kindergarten to third grade students into covering the entire range of kindergarten to twelfth grade.
In a public statement justifying why they rejected a pilot version of the Advanced Placement African American Studies curriculum, representatives of the Florida State Department of Education ...