ORLANDO, Fla. — Students in a Florida school district will be reading only excerpts from William Shakespeare’s plays for class rather than the full texts under redesigned curriculum guides developed, in part, to take into consideration the state’s new laws that restrict classroom materials whose content can be deemed sexual. The changes to the Hillsborough… Continue reading Shakespeare gets caught in Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ laws
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DeSantis Hasn’t Said A Word About Florida’s Coral Crisis
Typically, when an environmental and economic disaster strikes a state, its leader takes the time to address the threat, look for solutions, maybe even show up in person. But as coral reefs throughout the Florida Keys have turned ghost white and perished in recent weeks amid a record-breaking, relentless marine heat wave, Florida Gov. Ron… Continue reading DeSantis Hasn’t Said A Word About Florida’s Coral Crisis
Will Hurd condemns Ron DeSantis’ defense of Florida’s slavery curriculum
Former Texas Rep. Will Hurd, a Republican presidential contender, on Sunday slammed his opponent Gov. Ron DeSantis for defending Florida’s new public school standards that teach that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills. “I was the first Republican to come out and say that slavery is not a jobs… Continue reading Will Hurd condemns Ron DeSantis’ defense of Florida’s slavery curriculum