The Florida Department of Education sent a letter to the College Board, which runs the AP program, on May 19 asking the organization to review all AP courses to see if they need modification to ensure compliance with a Florida law and state Board of Education rule targeting instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity.
For 10 years Daffne Cruz has worked at public elementary, middle, and high schools in Polk County, Florida. During these years, she’s never tried to downplay or hide her queerness.
A Florida high school will issue refunds after parents and students whined that the yearbook staff ‘went woke’ and included inappropriate LGBTQ+ content in its annual publication.
California governor Gavin Newsom has condemned an “offensive” statement from an “ignorant” school board president who called Harvey Milk a “pedophile” during a book ban debate.
Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed a sweeping education law that orders the removal from schools of books that contain sex acts and restricts teaching about LGBTQ+ topics.
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) last week announced that a Georgia school district may have violated students’ civil rights by removing books that contained characters who were people of color or LGBTQ+.
The U.S. Education Department has announced a change to Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in federally funded education programs. The proposal would make it illegal for schools to broadly ban transgender students from sports teams that align with their gender identity, rather than their assigned sex at birth.
A Florida teacher is under investigation by the state Department of Education after what she believes is a targeted attack by a school board member who took issue with a Disney movie shown in her classroom.
A children’s book on the life of tennis and LGBTQ+ icon Billie Jean King is being reviewed for a possible ban in elementary school libraries by a school district in Tallahassee after a parent complained about one of its themes that supports same-sex love.
The superintendent of Fargo Public Schools is formally addressing recent legislation concerning gender expression, gender identity, and other LGBTQ+ issues. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) recently signed a bill that allows public school teachers to ignore the pronouns of transgender students.
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