A Florida judge on Thursday declared a Florida law championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that restricts race-based conversation and analysis in business and education unconstitutional.
The United States has become a nation divided over important issues in K-12 education, including which books students should be able to read in public school.
Former coach Joseph Kennedy argued that the Bremerton School District in Washington state violated his religious freedom by telling him he couldn't pray on the field after games.
Question has been revived months after a Wisconsin judge ruled school administrators could lawfully ban the garments in lawsuits students filed against their principals in 2020.
Board members were ousted following a tumultuous period that included fights over remote learning, renaming schools, a First Amendment lawsuit and changes to the admissions process at the city's most elite public high school.
Efforts to remove books from schools may signal two outcomes: a slide into a new era of intolerance or an explosion of student interest in the very books being challenged.
