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The legal battle over a Florida law that restricts classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation is pitting red states against blue states.
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A Florida Department of Education workgroup is crafting a training that all school-library workers must use in selecting books and other materials. The group was formed to carry out part of a new law passed this year.
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Students, parents, and teachers have filed a revised lawsuit seeking to block a new Florida law that restricts classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation.
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Some public speakers characterized it as a way to provide transparency, and others said it is potentially harmful to LGBTQ students.
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The new law is officially titled "Parental Rights in Education." U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor has issued a 25-page order dismissing the case, finding that plaintiffs did not show they had legal standing.
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LGBTQ-advocacy organizations, parents, students and a teacher sued in March, alleging the new law violates constitutional free-speech and equal-protection rights.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis allies and appointees are replacing longtime incumbents on two of the state's largest district school boards — positioning them to advance conservative policy priorities in some of the state's most Democratic-leaning counties.
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Lawyers for a group of parents, students and a non-profit organization have asked a federal judge to halt school districts from carrying out a controversial state law that restricts instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis took the unusual step this year of campaigning for county school-board candidates and saw most of them win Tuesday night, as the governor and local Republicans seek to elect conservative members to the boards.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis was the keynote speaker at the three-day Moms For Liberty conference in Tampa.