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Florida’s education board a year later expanded the restriction to include all grades. Teachers who violate the policy can be suspended or have their teaching licenses revoked.
Equality Florida v. Florida State Board of Education, "First Amended Complaint," May 25, 2022. Court Listener, "Equality Florida v. Florida State Board of Education Docket," accessed March 13, 2024.
On March 28, 2022, DeSantis signed Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, which banned classroom instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity in the state’s public K-12 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.
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.
(This procedure does not affect Florida's state universities, which are in a different system.) [104] On October 18, 2023, the Florida Board of Education voted to apply a similar restriction on bathroom use at private college and university buildings, including at any student housing run by those schools.
The board initially approved the book, “Comprehensive Health Skills,” which offers research-based health education with topics such as nutrition, physical activity and sexually transmitted ...
School board members from one-third of school districts in the state, representing the majority of Florida’s student population, also reached out to Equality Florida during the 2023-24 school ...