#hb 1467

[thespookylibrarian]

I have a really sweet coworker who just immigrated here from another country about a year ago. She came into work all excited the other day, saying “I heard some news on the radio that I think is good for you!” 

She proceeded to tell me about the Florida law (HB 1467) requiring a certified media specialist to review books before they can enter school libraries and classrooms.

“More jobs for future librarians like you!” she said.

Sad to think this is how a lot of people probably see this law, and that many won’t bother to investigate further into how vague and harmful it really is for students (not to mention the teachers who could face a third-degree felony for violating the law). 

I don’t know if this is an area of librarianship I really want to go into, but literacy has always been at the forefront of my academic/professional interests. That includes cultural literacy, which tends to fall under HB 1467′s broad language (re: theories that could lead to "student indoctrination”). 

I’ve found myself thinking about the ways I could shape my librarian studies/career into something that involves combatting these and similar laws affecting our education system, but I’m still not 100% sure what that would look like--hoping to take Intro to Info Policy in the fall for some insight. 

In the meantime, if anyone has any knowledge or experience regarding this topic, I would love to discuss it! I have a few friends in the K-12 teaching space but none on the librarian side, and they are dealing with enough already, unfortunately. 

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School teachers in Florida’s Manatee county are removing books from their classrooms or physically covering them up after a new bill went into effect that prohibited material unless deemed appropriate by a librarian, or “certified media specialist.” If a teacher is found in violation of these guidelines, they could face felony charges.

The new guidelines for the Florida law, known as HB 1467, outline the books be free of pornographic material, suited to student needs and their ability to comprehend the material, and appropriate for the grade level and age group. In order to determine if the books meet these guidelines, certified media specialists must undergo an online training developed by Florida’s Department of Education.

With only a few or even one media specialist present in each school, the process to vet books is lengthy.

Scrutiny of teaching material in Florida schools heightened under the leadership of the right-wing Republican Governor, Ron DeSantis, whose administration says it is actively working to “protect parental rights,” which includes a prohibition on childhood education on gender, sexual orientation and critical race theory.

DeSantis has emerged as a legitimate rival to Donald Trump in the Republican party. The former US president has already declared his 2024 candidacy for another White House run, while DeSantis is widely expected to do so later this year.

As part of his appeal to the party’s right-wing base, DeSantis has sought to portray himself as a culture-war warrior, cracking down on LGBTQ rights and taking conservative stances on the fight against COVID-19 and a host of other issues such as immigration.

In 2021, he announced the Stop W.O.K.E. (Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees) Act to “give businesses, employees, children and families tools to fight back against woke indoctrination.”

Teachers have condemned the new guidelines.

The Manatee Education Association union president, Pat Barber, told local TV station Fox 13: “We have people who have spent their entire careers building their classroom libraries based on their professional and educational experience and understanding of the age of the children they teach.”

Barber added: “Now, their professional judgment and training are being substituted for the opinion of anyone who wishes to review and challenge the books. We’re focused on things that cause teachers to want to walk away from education because they can’t focus on their mission of educating children.”

Some teachers are even covering up their library books with paper.

Don Falls, a history teacher at Manatee high school, told the Herald-Tribune newspaper: “If you have a lot of books like I do, probably several hundred, it is not practical to run all of them through [the vetting process] so we have to cover them up.”

More school districts in Florida are expected to follow suit as a result of such policies this year. The state’s education department issued a deadline of 1 July 2023 for when “the superintendent of schools in each district must certify to the FDOE Commissioner that all school librarians and media specialists have completed this training.”

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By Jake Johnson

Common Dreams

Aug. 23, 2023

Such bills represent a growing effort to "hijack public education in America," said PEN America's Jonathan Friedman.

Over the past two and a half years, Republicans across the United States have introduced nearly 380 bills aimed at establishing a climate of fear among educators, librarians, and other school officials, according to a report released Wednesday by the free expression group PEN America.

Distinct from the outright censorship measures that GOP lawmakers have unveiled in a number of U.S. states in recent years, "educational intimidation" bills "pressure educators to be more timid in the content they teach, pressure librarians to be more restrictive in the books they make available to students, and pressure students to limit their self-expression, without imposing direct prohibitions," the new report notes.

"Put simply, these 'educational intimidation' provisions, as we dub them, empower the use of intimidation tactics to cast a broad chilling effect over K-12 classrooms by mandating new and intrusive forms of inspection or monitoring of schools, as well as new ways for members of the public—including, in some cases, citizens with no direct connection to the schools—to object to whatever they see that they do not like," the report adds.

Often introduced under the guise of protecting "parental rights," such bills require students to receive approval from their parents before taking part in any instruction related to gender identity, give parents and other state residents more power to review and protest instructional materials, prohibit school libraries from offering any material not deemed "age-appropriate," and more.

Between January 2021 and June 2023, PEN America found, a total of 392 educational intimidation bills were introduced across the U.S.—with the GOP leading 377 of them—and nearly 40 were signed into law in 19 states. Over roughly that same period, teachers and librarians reported a surge in written and verbal threats related to topics considered "politically controversial."

"Of the intimidation bills introduced in 2023," PEN observed, "45% have an anti-LGBTQ+ provision, including the forced outing of students."

Jonathan Friedman, director of Free Expression and Education programs at PEN America, said that the "rising tide of educational intimidation exposes the movement that cloaks itself in the language of 'parental rights' for what it really is: a smoke screen for efforts to suppress teaching and learning and hijack public education in America."

"The opportunity for parents to inspect and object to school curricula is already commonly granted in public school systems, as it should be," Friedman added. "But this spate of provisions dramatically expands these powers in ways that are designed to spur schools and educators to self-censor. These bills risk turning every classroom into an ideological battleground, forcing teachers out of the profession, and jeopardizing the future of millions of students."

"These bills are not what they seem. They are the next phase in a years-long campaign to incite panic and impose ideological strictures on schools."

Missouri lawmakers have introduced the most educational intimidation bills in the U.S. at 31, with Texas, Oklahoma, and South Carolina not far behind.

"Florida, perhaps the country's greatest laboratory for educational censorship, has already demonstrated the dangers posed by such measures," PEN America noted.

As the new report explains:

HB 1467, enacted in 2022, requires school districts to take actions that sound reasonable on their face: to post online, in a “searchable format,” a list of all instructional materials used in the district and a list of all library materials and mandatory reading lists.47 Rules from the Florida Board of Education clarified that this law extends to classroom libraries, meaning educators have to include all books in one's classroom in a search database as well... In Florida and across the country, many school districts already make their library catalogs available to parents or members of the public. But in legislating them to do so, especially when in conjunction with reinforcing citizens’ rights to lodge objections and requiring objections to be reported to the state, the true intent of the law becomes clear: to encourage ideologues to use the law to scan school collections and protest inclusion of any books to which they object, and to mobilize state pressure on local school districts. Indeed, the net effect of the bill has been to prompt librarians and educators to take the most risk-averse approach possible toward potentially controversial books. Reports out of Florida's Manatee and Duval Counties have detailed the near-total suspension of students' access to classroom libraries while collections underwent new processes of review in response to the law. HB 1467 has also made it easier for censorship-minded activists to use school districts' published lists of instructional materials and library resources as targets for their ideological offensives. In Clay County, Bruce Friedman, leader of the local chapter of No Left Turn in Education, has been successful at getting hundreds of books temporarily or permanently removed from school library shelves, and has told journalists he has a list of thousands of titles to challenge. The same scenario is playing out in Florida's St. Lucie County, where Dale Galiano, a local retiree with no children in the school system, has made it her mission to challenge what she considers inappropriate books.

Republicans at the federal level have embraced the sweeping educational intimidation push.

PEN America's report points to a 2022 Republican National Committee memo encouraging candidates to focus on "parental rights" instead of critical race theory, which the GOP has turned into a bogeyman and used to justify further attacks on public education.

In March, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed the Parents Bill of Rights Act, legislation that resembles educational intimidation bills introduced at the state level.

"These bills are not what they seem," Friedman said Wednesday. "They are the next phase in a years-long campaign to incite panic and impose ideological strictures on schools. Education in a democracy must be characterized by openness and curiosity, by the freedom to read, learn, and think. These bills strike at that foundation, in novel, sometimes subtle, yet potentially irrevocable ways. Their spread should not be taken lightly."

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Florida Democrats are using a state law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis against him, seeking to ban his autobiography “The Courage to Be Free,” The Daily Beast reported.

“The very trap he set for others is the one that he set for himself,” said Democratic minority leader Fentrice Driskell, who is leading an effort across 50 counties to see if any of them will review or ban DeSantis’ book based on his law’s criteria.

“At the very least, the move draws attention to how HB 1467’s vague and arbitrary language can be abused when taken to its logical conclusions—while putting a critical spotlight on the contents of the book, widely seen another clear sign that DeSantis will run for president in 2024,” The Beast reports.

DeSantis approved the law last year, which includes guidelines for content deemed inappropriate on grounds of race, sexuality, gender and depictions of violence — guidelines that will be used to ban certain books in the state’s public schools.

Within his book, DeSantis alleges students have been forced to “chant to the Aztec god of human sacrifice” and describes violence that took place at Black Lives Matter protests, at one point pointing to a video showing “dead black children, dramatically warning … about ‘racist police and state-sanctioned violence’”.

The book also goes into detail about the 2017 shooting at congressional baseball practice in which Steve Scalise (R-LA), was seriously wounded.

The Beast reports that DeSantis’ book “use[s] the terms ‘woke’ and ‘gender ideology’ 46 times and 10 times respectively, both of which could constitute ‘divisive concepts’ the governor has argued should stay out of curricula up to the college level.”

Democrats say that such passages within the book run afoul of DeSantis’ own law.

“We’re leaning into one of [DeSantis’s] weaknesses,” Driskell told The Beast. “… If America doesn’t want Florida’s present reality to become America’s future reality, people need to know what it’s like here. This is our way of fighting back, but also highlighting how ridiculous some of this becomes, right?”

It’s not known how many copies of DeSantis’ book is on the shelves of Florida school libraries. As The Beast’s report points out, at least one school district responded to the Democrats’ effort, writing to thank them for “expressing your concerns” about the book, but said no school within the district currently carries any copies.

[fernreads]

School teachers in Florida’s Manatee county are removing books from their classrooms or physically covering them up after a new bill went into effect that prohibited material unless deemed appropriate by a librarian, or “certified media specialist”.

If a teacher is found in violation of these guidelines, they could face felony charges.

The new guidelines for the Florida law, known as HB 1467, outline the books be free of pornographic material, suited to student needs and their ability to comprehend the material, and appropriate for the grade level and age group.

In order to determine if the books meet these guidelines, certified media specialists must undergo an online training developed by Florida’s department of education.

With only a few or even one media specialist present in each school, the process to vet books is lengthy.

Scrutiny of teaching material in Florida schools heightened under the leadership of the rightwing Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, whose administration says it is actively working to “protect parental rights”, which includes a prohibition on childhood education on gender, sexual orientation and critical race theory.

DeSantis has emerged as a legitimate rival to Donald Trump in the Republican party. The former US president has already declared his 2024 candidacy for another White House run, while DeSantis is widely expected to do so later this year.

As part of his appeal to the party’s rightwing base DeSantis has sought to portray himself as a culture war warrior, cracking down on LGBTQ rights and taking conservative stances on the fight against Covid-19 and a host of other issues such as immigration.

In 2021, he announced the Stop Woke (Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees) Act to “give businesses, employees, children and families tools to fight back against woke indoctrination”.

Teachers have condemned the new guidelines.

The Manatee Education Association union president, Pat Barber, told local TV station Fox 13: “We have people who have spent their entire careers building their classroom libraries based on their professional and educational experience and understanding of the age of the children they teach.”

Barber added: “Now, their professional judgment and training are being substituted for the opinion of anyone who wishes to review and challenge the books. We’re focused on things that cause teachers to want to walk away from education because they can’t focus on their mission of educating children.”

Some teachers are even covering up their library books with paper.

Don Falls, a history teacher at Manatee high school, told the Herald-Tribune newspaper: “If you have a lot of books like I do, probably several hundred, it is not practical to run all of them through [the vetting process] so we have to cover them up.”

More school districts in Florida are expected to follow suit as a result of such policies this year. The state’s education department issued a deadline of 1 July 2023 for when “the superintendent of schools in each district must certify to the FDOE Commissioner that all school librarians and media specialists have completed this training”.

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La prohibición de libros de Allende, García Márquez y otros escritores en escuelas públicas de Florida genera debate - Infobae

HB 1467 . El rey pasmado para presidente...

[louisianaprelawland-blog]

Can Books Be Banned From Schools?

By Caitlyn Whitley, Louisiana State University Class of 2026

June 27, 2023

In 2022, Florida introduced new legislation that would allow parents to have more involvement in what books are allowed to be in their children’s school libraries. The books that are requested to be banned are usually labeled as too obscene for minors. Exposing children to certain topics has been found to negatively affect the overall development of a child, thus providing importance to controlling what content they are exposed to. However, the books that some parents have requested to be banned are not being requested because of their obscene content but for their topic of discussion that is subjectively being considered obscene by the requester. Books on topics such as LGBTQ and race have been requested to be banned from Florida schools, with some being successful in their removal.

As of 2023, many books are being removed from libraries and are being investigated by school boards to determine if their content is age appropriate for the youth in question. Yet, this new legislation will not last long as the Supreme Court determined in the case of Island Trees Union Free School District v. Pico by Pico that “boards could not restrict the availability of books in its libraries simply because its members disagreed with its ideas”.

Island Trees Union Free School District v. Pico by Pico

In September of 1975, Parents of New York United, a conservative organization of parents, held a conference with the members of the Island Trees Board of Education to express their concerns for books that were available in the school district’s libraries. The organization provided the board members with a list of books in which they determined were considered to be “objectionable” and “improper fare for school students”. The Board ordered the high school and middle schools’ principals to remove the books from the library to conduct an investigation into their content. The books were categorized as “anti-American, anti-Christian, antisemitic, and just plain filthy”.

The Board then created a committee consisting of four parents and four school district staff members, in which they were ordered to review books to be removed or retained. However, the Board ignored their recommendations without reason, which led to the committee suing and claiming that the Board banned books that “offended their social, political, and moral taste”. The committee also claimed that the Boards actions violated their first amendment rights.

The Supreme Court argued that the Board has the right to remove certain books from being an educational requirement in the classrooms however, they may not remove books from libraries as they will be considered an option for students to read as it is a matter of free choice. The court specifically states that the libraries “affords them an opportunity at self-education and individual enrichment that is wholly optional”. The School Board may not remove books if the decision was based on their own political or social views and dislike for the ideas in the books. The Court Affirmed the Committees claims that these actions by the Board violated their first amendment rights. Despite the ruling on this case, the Florida Legislation, HB 1467, goes against it.

Florida Legislation

The Florida Legislation labeled HB 1467, states each school district is responsible for the material available in the classroom and school library; each school district must adopt a policy on the process of handling a parent’s objection towards materials and give them the opportunity to provide evidence. Which proves that the material contained harmful content prohibited under statute 847.012, as it does not meet the students’ needs nor is age appropriate depending on the age group in question. The statute is pictured below.

It is justifiable to control what content children are consuming as it is known that certain content may have negative effects on a child’s behavior. However, the issue with the legislation is that it not only bans books from a school’s library, but it gives parents the discretion to subjectively object to books based on their own political and social views at the expense of the entire student body. Which as stated by the Supreme Court, is a violation of the first amendment and it is logical to note that certain school boards will be inclined to approve the parent request in order to keep their position, even if the “harmful” content does not match the one stated in the 847.012 statute.

For example, many parents have called for the removal of books that include critical race theory as they fear that its content may cause children to become bias towards white children. No matter the legitimacy of the claim, critical race theory is taught in history classes, especially when covering the topic of the civil rights era. If a school board were to accept this claim, this would lead to the complete removal of African American history, solely because the board did not like the potential ideas within the contents of the material. It may also be due to the members not wanting to risk receiving heavy scrutiny from those who elected them, which could lead to them losing their position in the future.

To provide an example for a book that has been banned in the last year, “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas was banned from Martin County Florida school district for its description of racial injustice after many complaints. The book depicts the shooting of an unarmed Black man and the protests that sprouted as a result. This book’s content does not match the prohibited content stated in Florida Statute 847.012 but was still banned. “Maximum Ride” is another novel banned by the same district, which is a scientific fantasy for young adults. Julie Marshall, the person who submitted the objection, stated that she had not read or viewed the book series and claimed that it had no “serious literary, artistic, political or scientific values for students”, which resulted in its banning. These two books are exceptional examples of how giving parents and others the ability to become involved in what books are available in schools, opens the door for a book’s content to be subjectively judged without merit on its harmful affects on children, especially when the book is not required but an option for students in the library. Which is unconstitutional as it violates the freedom of speech and press clauses of the first amendment, as determined in Pico.

Conclusion

Florida is justified in its compelling interest to protect children through the content they are exposed to, specifically content that is sexual in nature as stated in statute 847.012. However, giving parents the opportunity to become deeply involved in the selection process for educational materials leads to books being banned not because of their merit but for their content that a parent disagreed with, which may not have been sexual. When applied to what books are available in a school’s library, it violates the author’s and their publisher’s first amendment rights to free speech and press as a student has the free will to select and read a particular book.

As of May 2023, the publishing company, Penguin Random House and 5 authors are suing the Escambia County School board for removing books on the topic of race, racism, and LGBTQ identities after many objections from parents and teachers. This case almost mirrors that of Island Trees School District v. Pico by Pico from 1975 and will be interesting to see how this court rules on it despite the similar issues apparent in both.

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ENROLLED CS/HB 1467, Engrossed 2 CODING. (n.d.). Flsenate.gov. Retrieved June 22, 2023, from https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1467/BillText/er/PDF

James Patterson, Judy Blume, Toni Morrison, Jodi Picoult on list of 80 books one Florida school district pulled. (n.d.). Treasure Coast. https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/2023/03/16/list-florida-school-district-removes-books-sex-racial-content-martin-county/70009140007/

Statutes & Constitution :View Statutes : Online Sunshine. (n.d.). Www.leg.state.fl.us. Retrieved June 22, 2023, from http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0800-0899/0847/Sections/0847.012.html

Strasburger, V. C., Jordan, A. B., & Donnerstein, E. (2010). Health effects of media on children and adolescents. Pediatrics, 125, 4. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2009-2563

Sullivan, B., & Ulaby, N. (2023, May 18). Penguin Random House and 5 Authors Are Suing a Florida School Board over Book Bans. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/18/1176879171/florida-book-ban-lawsuit

Thomas, R. (n.d.). Florida’s book bans: Which titles are being pulled from school media centers? The Ledger. https://www.theledger.com/story/news/state/2022/04/26/florida-school-book-bans-these-library-titles-being-reviewed-school-boards/9542938002/

U.S. Reports: Board of Education v. Pico, 457 U.S. 853 (1982). (n.d.). Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. https://www.loc.gov/item/usrep457853/

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New Florida Laws in 2023

Florida’s legislature has enacted a number of new laws for 2023.  Notable among the new laws is the prohibition of allowing third party contractors to sue insurance companies on behalf of the insured (a practice known as “assignment of benefits”) and toll relief for motorists who frequently travel toll roads.

TOLL CREDITS: Last December, lawmakers approved a measure (SB 6-A) that provides 50 percent credits to motorists who record 35 or more toll-road trips in a month. The program will last for a year, and includes a  $500 million  grant to  toll agencies  to cover lost revenue.

RESTRICTIONS ON LOBBYING: New laws (HB 7001 and HB 7003) will carry out a constitutional amendment that voters passed in 2018 to expand from two to six years the time that certain officials will have to wait to start lobbying after leaving government positions. The restrictions will apply to lawmakers, state agency heads, judges and many local officials.

DISASTER RELIEF: Responding to the devastating 2021 collapse of the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside, lawmakers approved property tax rebates when residential properties are rendered uninhabitable for 30 days. During the December special session, lawmakers passed a measure (SB 4-A) to offer similar rebates to property owners who sustained damage in Hurricane Ian and Hurricane Nicole. Property owners will be able to apply to county property appraisers between Jan. 1 and April 1.

PUBLIC NOTICES: HB 7049 allows local governments to publish legal notices on county websites instead of in newspapers. Local governments in counties with fewer than 160,000 residents must first hold public hearings to determine if residents have sufficient access to the internet.

WORKERS' COMPENSATION RATES:  The Florida Department of Insurance Regulation approved an overall 8.4 percent decrease in workers’ compensation insurance premiums for 2023.  This change took effect in January, marking the seventh consecutive year that average rates have decreased.

PROPERTY INSURANCE: During the December 2022, the Florida legislature  enacted a law that ended the controversial practice known as assignment of benefits for property insurance. The practice involves homeowners signing over claims to contractors, who then pursue payments from insurers. The prohibition on assignment of benefits (SB 2-A) applies to policies issued on or after Jan. 1.

APPELLATE COURTS: Florida’s appellate courts were revamped Jan. 1 under a law (HB 7027) that created a 6th District Court of Appeal and revised the jurisdictions of the 1st District Court of Appeal, the 2nd District Court of Appeal and the 5th District Court of Appeal.

SCHOOL LIBRARY BOOK SELECTIONS: As part of a broader education bill (HB 1467), lawmakers required that a training program be available as of Jan. 1 for school librarians, media specialists and others involved in the selection of school library materials. The program is aimed, in part, at providing access to “age-appropriate materials and library resources.”

MIYA'S LAW: Lawmakers passed a measure (SB 898) that will require apartment landlords to conduct background checks on all employees. The bill, dubbed “Miya’s Law,” was prompted by the death of 19-year-old Miya Marcano, a Valencia College student who went missing from her Orlando apartment in September and later found dead. The suspected killer, who later committed suicide, worked as a maintenance worker at Marcano’s apartment complex.

 Call John Clarke, Esq. at (305)467-5560 for a free appointment if you have been injured in an accident or need estate planning services.

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DeSantis' Ignorant Law Has Florida Cataloging Books

Those who breach HB 1467 could be charged with a third-degree felony. — Read on www.theroot.com/desantis-ignorant-law-has-florida-cataloging-books-1850034982

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January 25, 2023: fascist desantis aka little mussolini's HB 1467 Book Banning Law has gone into effect in Florida HB 1467 BBL Requires Books be Pre-Approved Materials or Vetted by a Media Specialist Trained by Florida’s Department of Education, according to Pat Barber, President of the Manatee Education Association, the County’s Teachers’ Union. "Trained by Florida’s Department of Education" = Other fascist trained to Ban Anything fascist desantis wants Per the FDE, School and Classroom Library Materials, of must be “Free of Pornography” and Other Prohibited Material Under The Law," Materials Must Be "Suited to Student Needs, Their Ability to Comprehend” and “Appropriate For The Grade/Age Group.”

I think most of us would agree pornography should be banned from Schools, but pornography is subjective. They could decide sex ed, art depicting nudity, Locker Rooms or the Little Mermaids shells are pornographic. and then there's "Other Prohibited Material" What exactly is that? Tom Sawyer, To Kill a Mockingbird, History Books About The Trail of Tears, The Scopes Trial, Jim Crow South and the Fight For Women's Rights? Maybe Everything Showing The Atrocities White People, White Men Have Commited? Regardless Florida Teachers are experiencing “Fear” and “Confusion” as the district works to implement HB 1467 BBL which if not done according to fascist ideas could result in 3rd-Degree Felony Charges and Really What fascist desantis wants is to Promote white supremacy, white male supremacy and white male power. While trying to erase the evil Our Ancestors did. No Good Will Come From fascist desantis and his confederate maga loyalist

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Florida school district begins 'cataloging' books to comply with DeSantis-backed law | CNN Politics : Inside US

CNN  —  Efforts are underway in Florida counties to comply with a law championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that requires the approval of books in classroom libraries. Manatee County School District teachers are experiencing “fear” and “confusion” as the district works to implement HB 1467, which requires that books be pre-approved materials or vetted by a media specialist trained by…

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Florida school district begins 'cataloguing' books to comply with DeSantis-backed law

CNN  —  Efforts are underway in Florida counties to comply with a law championed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis that requires the approval of books in classroom libraries. Manatee County School District teachers are experiencing “fear” and “confusion” as the district works to implement HB 1467, which requires that books be pre-approved materials or vetted by a media specialist trained by…