DeSantis' latest so-called "Freedom Blueprint" proposal appears similar to a measure the Florida legislature considered in 2021 and 2022 that the state's largest teachers' union, the Florida Education Association, called "anti-freedom" and "anti-educator."

The study, which was conducted in September, revealed that 91.7% of the state's kindergarten students were vaccinated for the year, marking the lowest since the 2010-2011 school year, and 94.3% of seventh graders were properly vaccinated, the lowest since the 2009-2010 school year, when 93.7% were vaccinated.

Conservative groups that sought to get hundreds of “parents’ rights” activists elected to local school boards largely fell short in last week’s midterm elections, notching notable wins in some Republican strongholds but failing to gain a groundswell of support among moderate voters.