As the Florida measure critics call the "Don't Say Gay" bill awaits final approval, a new curriculum transparency law requires schools to list library books and reading materials.
Despite a wave of new laws that hit schools this week, a majority of adults oppose banishing sexual orientation or gender identity topics from U.S. classrooms.
An advocacy group, Equality Florida, plans legal challenge against divisive new law banning schools from discussing sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade.
Public school teachers in Florida are now banned from holding classroom instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the controversial "Parental Rights in Education" bill.
Parental Rights in Education bill would prohibit “classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity” in the state's primary schools. Some warn it will endanger LGBTQ students.
State lawmakers scrambling to restrict the teaching about race and racism, LGBTQ issues and other topics risk seeing their schools lose advanced placement classes.
Educational technology, both online and in the classroom, went into overdrive during COVID and its presence will grow in new ways regardless of the trajectory of the pandemic.
Another governor has waded into the battle over school mask mandates as a Florida superintendent fined by her state said face coverings are beginning to have an impact on COVID-19 transmissions.
