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Florida rejects DeSantis’ suit against ‘woke’ college accreditation process again
DeSantis believes the process enforces diversity and related interests he considers “woke.”
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Over 5,000 petitions call on Disney to drop property tax lawsuits that could drain money from Orange County schools
The school district that is already in a financial crisis and has been forced to close schools over declining enrollment and budget concerns.
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Florida teacher fired after Charlie Kirk post fights for professional survival
“This might not be the obituary we were hoping to wake up to, but this is a close second to me,” she initially wrote.
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Florida blocks undocumented immigrants from state colleges, GED programs
Undocumented immigrants will be blocked from adult general education programs in high schools and state colleges
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Leftover Disney property tax settlement money set aside by schools could go back to teacher salaries
Orange County Public Schools has set aside $119 million to settle property tax lawsuits filed against the county by Disney World and other corporations, should the plaintiffs prevail.
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News orgs urge Orange County schools to change policy that ‘chills First Amendment-protected speech’
The call-to-action is part of an initiative that spotlights policies that restrict the reasonable flow of pertinent information to the public.
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Florida schools directed to add AI to internet safety policies
All districts already have an “Internet Safety” policy in place, and now the DOE is requiring districts to amend the policy to include AI
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University of Florida presidential hopeful Stuart Bell says he won’t bring ‘woke’ back
“I’m certainly not coming to Florida to bring DEI or any form of woke back. Period,” Bell said Wednesday afternoon
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Florida school choice advocates push back against union’s ‘frivolous’ voucher suit
Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas called the statewide union a “special interest group” on a “never-ending quest to harm students and families in our great state.”
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UCF students boo commencement speaker over AI praise
“No, they’re saying Boo-urns”
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Florida teachers union, parents sue state over crumbling public school system starved by state vouchers
Plaintiffs argued the state has failed to uphold students’ constitutional right to a high-quality education through the public school system.
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Florida average teacher pay remains at bottom of national data, union says
“When public dollars are diverted away from public schools, and teachers can’t afford to stay in the profession, it’s students who lose”
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Florida’s 28 state colleges remove sociology as general education course
The 12 state universities also recently removed the course
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Florida seeks to bar undocumented immigrants from state colleges
Students would have to “provide clear and convincing documentation that he or she is a citizen of the United States or lawfully present in the United States,” before admission
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Florida rural school districts’ financial stress is the ‘canary in coal mine’
The distressed finances of two districts could be just an inkling of what’s to come, state leaders say, as enrollment continues to decline
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Uthmeier says Florida can now fund religious charter schools, ‘encourage’ Christianity
The First Amendment doesn’t bar the states from “encouraging” religion, especially Christianity, Uthmeier asserts
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Florida scraps sociology as a general education course at universities
The decision comes after state rulemakers and faculty tugged back and forth over what a sociology curriculum will look like
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Florida universities face DeSantis-backed freeze on H1-B visas
Florida’s university system decision-makers voted to pause H-1B visas at state universities until next year
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Florida adds Maduro overthrow to anti-communist curriculum
The Florida Education Association said the new communism curriculum included ‘ideologically charged rhetoric’ when it was adopted last fall
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Bill to put cameras in special education classrooms moves ahead
The Florida bill seeks to provide an objective eye in situations in which students, particularly those who are nonverbal, might be abused or mistreated