According to Walkout 2 Learn, walkouts are being planned in Miami, Jacksonville, Orlando, and Sarasota to protest state leaders grossly overstepping their authority, silencing teachers, and stripping students of accurate and quality instruction.

The incident occurred on Monday when three 7-year-old students became sick at College Gardens Elementary School approximately 15 miles north of Washington, D.C. and went to the nurse complaining of dizziness.

Preschool STEM can prevent inequities in science and math achievement when students start kindergarten, and prevent the gap from growing.

The movement, under the banner of "the science of reading," is targeting the education establishment: school districts, literacy gurus, publishers and colleges of education, which critics say have failed to embrace the cognitive science of how children learn to read.