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A number of initiatives across Florida aim to highlight the growing concern some parents and other groups have about book removals in public schools.

These days, prom can cost hundreds of dollars — money many families in Miami-Dade County don’t have. That’s where the school district’s Prom Boutique comes in. Everything at the shop is free for students whose families are struggling financially.

The film, Strange World, tells the story of a family of explorers and includes a character who has a crush on another boy. The fifth-grade teacher says a student's mother lodged a complaint.

The Florida Education Association's lawsuit says the Florida Department of Education went beyond the scope of HB 1467 in its training, which led some districts to cover shelves.

Teachers unions have quickly filed a constitutional challenge to a new Florida law that places additional restrictions on public-employee unions, describing the measure as political retaliation by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

In one case, references to the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement were removed. The list of rejected materials included books on U.S. history, the Holocaust and psychology.

Leon County Superintendent Rocky Hanna has publicly opposed the governor's measures, including a law dubbed by critics as “Don’t Say Gay,"

Hundreds of protestors, some holding signs reading 'Protect Professors; Resist Fascism' gathered on the New College campus ahead of the meeting.

Between July and December 2022, the free speech advocacy group PEN America reports Florida school districts banned 357 titles.

High school and college students across Florida will walk out of their classrooms in protest of legislation that restricts what they can learn in school.

The proposal (HJR 31) will go on the 2024 ballot and, if approved by voters, would do away with a requirement that school-board candidates run without party labels

The bills passed by the House and moving through the Senate would require middle schools to start no earlier than 8 a.m. and high schools no earlier than 8:30 a.m. by 2026.