Tallahassee Democrat - District 91心頭istration District 91心頭istration Media Wed, 08 Jan 2025 16:00:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Trial coming soon for Florida man suing over schools’ refusal to display Satan banners /trial-coming-soon-for-florida-man-suing-over-schools-refusal-to-display-satan-banners/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:21:15 +0000 /?p=170088 A free speech activist suing over Florida schools refusal to display a Satan banner will get his day in court, a federal judge has ruled.

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]]> A free speech activist suing over Florida schools refusal to display a Satan banner will get his day in court, a federal judge has ruled.

In a recent decision, U.S. District Judge Robert Scola of Miami rejected the School Board of Broward Countys request for the case to be thrown out, giving a thumbs up to a March 10 trial.

The board has been sued by South Florida’s Timothy Chaz Stevens, the minister of what he calls The Church of Satanology and Perpetual Soiree.

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]]> School board in Florida bans book about book bans /article/school-board-in-florida-bans-book-about-book-bans/ Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:35:01 +0000 /?p=164114 Indian River County School Board members said they disliked how it referenced other books that had been removed from schools and accused it of "teaching rebellion of school board authority."

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]]> School officials in Florida have banned a book about book banning.

The Indian River County School Board voted to remove “Ban This Book” by Alan Gratz from its shelves in a meeting last month, overruling its own district book-review committee’s decision to keep it.

The children’s novel follows a fictional fourth grader who creates a secret banned books locker library after her school board pulled a multitude of titles off the shelves.

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]]> Florida revises school library book removal training following public outcry /article/florida-revises-school-library-book-removal-training-following-public-outcry/ Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:21:13 +0000 /?p=163539 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.

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]]> 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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