Ron DeSantis displays the signed Parental Rights in Education flanked by elementary school students during a news conference on March 28, 2022, at Classical Preparatory school in Shady Hills. - Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times/TNS
By now, most Floridians get it: The DeSantis administration is obsessed with targeting the LGBTQ community in Florida dishonestly, irrationally and repetitively across multiple venues. The latest salvos will be fired on Wednesday, when the stateBoard of Education takes up a group of proposals that would once again drag Florida educators down the path of persecution. Sooner or later, local school boards — who are elected by, and accountable to, the voters of each county — must start pushing back against this ridiculous, ongoing assault. The policies up for adoption at Wednesday’s meeting could ...
