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Nikki Fried, the last Democrat to hold a statewide office in Florida, was selected to chair the Florida Democratic Party as it looks to recover from its latest disastrous election cycle.
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Two months after Democrats suffered historic losses across the state, Florida Democratic Party Chairman Manny Diaz announced in a letter that he has chosen to retire.
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Democrats say Florida's GOP Lt. Governor Jeanette Nuñez — a Cuban-American — indicated Gov. DeSantis will bus undocumented Cuban migrants out of the state.
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Recently released federal guidelines would extend protections under the law to include schools’ “obligations not to discriminate based on sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation and gender identity.”
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Saying federal guidelines aimed at preventing discrimination against students based on such things as gender identity would “vastly expand the application” of Title IX, Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz, Jr. told school officials Thursday to ignore the guidelines.
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The Florida Department of Education published a proposed rule designed to carry out part of the controversial new “Parental Rights in Education law,” which critics disparagingly dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law.
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A bill pushed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that would prohibit public schools and private businesses from making white people feel “discomfort” when they teach students or train employees about discrimination in the nation’s past received its first approval Tuesday.
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The University of Miami is letting go of its head football coach while hiring a new one. Manny Diaz was fired Monday after the team underachieved in recent years. Oregon coach and former Hurricane, Mario Cristobal has replaced him
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State Sen. Manny Diaz, R-Hialeah Gardens, has been at the forefront of school choice issues in recent years. This time around he’s pitching a big one: a plan to consolidate the state’s five school choice programs into two. The measure also changes HOW those programs would be funded, and that’s where Democrats are drawing the line.
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The future of the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority remains unclear after a recent ruling by a Leon County Judge that the legislation ordering its…
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The conservative Republican leader of the state House of Representatives wants a bill to become law so badly, he tied it to billions of dollars in public…
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A handful of public schools in Florida have either all-girls or all-boys classrooms. More could be coming.Rep. Manny Diaz, R-Hialeah, is behind a bill…