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On March 8, the bill passed the Florida Senate [16] and was signed by the governor, Ron DeSantis, on March 28. [19] The Orlando Sentinel reported in February 2022 that The Walt Disney Company has donated money to all of the bill's sponsors and cosponsors, [2] with The Verge reporting that the donations have totaled around $200,000. [20]
Under DeSantis, Florida has seen a wide number of bills relating to restricting education in the state. The most notable of these bills was the Parental Rights in Education Act, a law which restricted the instruction of homosexuality, gender identity, and various other LGBT+ issues and content within public elementary schools up to third grade.
As Gov. Ron DeSantis touts his state's education reforms as a blueprint for his potential presidency, this year's legislative session in Florida is once again teed up with bills that aim to ...
Florida lawmakers pushed through and passed a slew of education bills this Legislative Session that wrapped up Friday, underscoring Gov. DeSantis’ and Republican’s efforts to overhaul the ...
The act is officially titled the Parental Rights in Education Act and is described as "An act relating to parental rights in education" in the act itself. [1]It is more commonly known as Don't Say Gay, as it has been described in headlines by the prominent news agency, the Associated Press; [21] prominent domestic newspapers such as The New York Times, [22] The Washington Post, [23] and the ...
FILE - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs the Parental Rights in Education bill at Classical Preparatory school on March 28, 2022, in Shady Hills, Fla.
DeSantis backtracked on the 2022 law on Tuesday when he signed a bill narrowing its focus. “The idea that someone can use the parents rights and the curriculum transparency to start objecting to ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis pivoted in his years-long campaign to take what he has called "woke indoctrination" out of Florida's schools, signing a bill Tuesday to restrict challenges to books in school ...