MIAMI — Ever since Florida’s education department issued a scathing press release last week accusing publishers of pushing forbidden ideas on young minds, Vincent T. Forese and other publishers were left to wonder: What’s wrong with our math textbooks? What makes them “woke”? Even “dangerous”? On Thursday the veil was parted and the answer revealed — at least somewhat. Amid demands for documents from news organizations, requests for information from others and a bit of ridicule on Twitter and cable news, the state responded with follow-up emails to individual textbook publishers puzzled by wha...

Ron DeSantis