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The Florida Board of Governors, which oversees the state’s university system, made the decision to implement higher education reforms championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The Florida Board of Education on Wednesday approved new rules strictly enforcing a new law segregating public restroom facilities by gender.
The board expanded restrictions on lessons about LGBTQ+ identity and called for teaching that slavery benefited some African Americans.
The Florida Board of Education said the course could be taught if those elements were left out.
College Board threatened to not allow censored courses to be designated "AP."
The Republican governor and presidential hopeful previously targeted AP Black History.
Advocacy groups demand assurances faculty won’t face retribution because of Florida’s "don’t say gay" law.
One rule requires public notification about restroom access for transgender students, while another threatens teacher's licenses under the "don't say gay" law.
The new rules are seen by local activists as an attempt to "bully and intimidate" affirming school districts.
Now no student in a Florida public school will be taught about the existence of LGBTQ+ people or other gender identities until after they graduate from high school.
The families are plantiffs in one of the two lawsuits that have been brought against the Florida law.
Hope Carrasquilla was forced to resign from a charter school after giving an art lesson that included the famous nude statue.
The state's assertion of control over what was once a special Disney tax district is retribution for the company's constitutionally protected speech, the suit says.
Jessica Norton has been through a lengthy investigation by the Broward County schools after she sued over Florida's anti-trans sports law.
As DeSantis announces his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, we review how he's attacked LGBTQ+ people and other marginalized communities.
The judge ruled that the plaintiffs had not "alleged sufficient facts" to show they had legal standing to challenge the law.
It comes almost a year after he signed the current "don't say gay" law.
“The only child that was harmed in this entire investigation was my own child,” Jessica Norton said of her daughter's ban from playing girls' volleyball — a sport her daughter had played for years.
The law is unconstitutional and does "concrete harms" to parents, students, teachers, and organizations, according to the lawyers in the case.
A legal settlement established that certain discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity are absolutely permitted in Florida schools.
Moody has exactly the anti-LGBTQ+ record you'd expect of a DeSantis appointee.
