Florida is moving forward with a revised training program for local public school officials in charge of policing library and classroom bookshelves, including changes to language that free speech advocates said misrepresented state law and led to unnecessary book removals.
“Based on some stakeholder input, we’d like to provide some clarifying language,” K-12 Chancellor Paul Burns said this week before the State Board of Education voted in approval.
That vote came after more than a half-year of questions and concerns from those groups and others, prompted by the Florida Department of Education’s October memorandum instructing school leaders to remove any book that contained “sexual conduct.” That’s due to a Gov. Ron DeSantis-signed law.
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