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Florida school board bans book about book bannings

A book about book bannings has itself been banned by a school board in Florida at the behest of right-wing Moms for Liberty activists. The Guardian reports that "Ban This Book" by author Alan Gratz has been removed from libraries in Florida's Indian River county school district after the school board opted to ban it in a 3-to-2 vote last …

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College ends partnership with Florida charter school over the ‘David’ statue issue

Complaints over teaching about Michelangelo’s famed “David” sculpture has cost a charter school in Florida its principal — and now its partnership with Hillsdale College in Michigan. A Michigan college has ended its partnership with a Florida charter school whose principal was forced to resign after a parent complained that sixth graders were exposed to “pornography” during a lesson on …

School principal resigns after showing Michelangelo’s David in class

After Florida school uproar, Italy extends an invitation to parents and students to view Michelangelo’s ‘David’

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi speak at a 2015 news conference in front of Michelangelo’s “David,” a masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance. The Florence museum housing Michelangelo’s Renaissance masterpiece the David on Sunday invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit after complaints about a lesson featuring the statue forced the principal …

CNN — A charter school principal in Tallahassee, Florida, did not follow procedure before a lesson on Michelangelo’s statue of David was given to sixth graders, school board Chair Barney Bishop III told CNN. “We think it’s beautiful, but we are going to make sure the concept of parental rights is supreme in Florida and at our charter school,” he …

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Michelangelo’s “David” — the impetus for a Florida school principal’s ouster this week — was the backdrop in Florence, Italy, in 2015 as Angela Merkel, then chancellor of Germany, and Matteo Renzi, Italy’s prime minister at the time, speak after a summit. A Florida charter school principal has been forced to resign after a parent complained that sixth-graders were exposed …

LOADING ERROR LOADING Three Florida high school students are threatening to sue Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state of Florida over a recently announced statewide ban on a new Advanced Placement course on African American history. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat via Associated Press “If he does not negotiate with the College Board to allow African American studies to be taught …

CNN — This weekend, Javi Gomez is traveling nearly 500 miles from his native Miami to Florida’s capital in Tallahassee to plead his case against a piece of legislation LGBTQ advocates are calling the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. “It’ll probably reach the point where legislators are emboldened,” said Scott Galvin, executive director of Safe Schools South Florida, an organization that …

Judge: Florida can’t enforce ban on school mask mandates

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A Florida judge ruled Wednesday that the state cannot enforce a ban on public schools mandating the use of masks to guard against the coronavirus, while an appeals court sorts out whether the ban is ultimately legal. Ron DeSantis and state education officials exceeded their authority by imposing the blanket ban through executive order and tagging …