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The summer holiday provided a welcome break for students, educators and families worn out from the political pingpong over Florida’s public schools. But with classes returning Thursday in ...
These laws are solutions in search of a problem; a ruse to deflect from real problems facing our public education system to which the state could direct its attention: how we draw our school ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis is greeted by senators and representatives as he arrives to give the State of the State Address on opening day of the 2024 Florida Legislative Session on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024.
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.
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.
The University of Miami in Coral Gables. The Florida education system consists of public and private schools in Florida, including the State University System of Florida (SUSF), the Florida College System (FCS), the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida (ICUF) and other private institutions, and also secondary and primary schools as well as virtual schools.
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Amid this $3 billion funding shortfall, Florida’s childcare system becomes even more precarious. As the federal funding comes to an end, the Century Foundation estimates 213,000 children in ...