14th Amendment

On Flagler County School Board, Competing Views Underscore District Tensions Behind Vouchers and ‘Choice’

Following a 15-minute hearing on Tuesday to approve Flagler County schools’ initial property tax and budget for the upcoming fiscal year, it was revealed ...

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Federal Judge Wants To Know ‘Who’s Running the Show’ at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

As at least 100 detainees have been deported amid legal disputes over the remote facility, a U.S. district judge on Monday urged state and ...

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Stop the Grift: Florida’s School Vouchers Are Scamming Taxpayers and Sabotaging Democracy

By Colleen Conklin If we really care about efficiency and outcomes in education, we should start with the one system–the only system- l egally ...

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America(n) Unbecoming

July 19 is an important date in my personal inconsequence. It was on this day in 1976, when I was not yet 12 and ...

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New Schools Commissioner Threatens Superintendents About Violating ‘Parental Rights’

Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas delivered his first speech to the State Board of Education Wednesday, quoting the Book of Psalms and promising to work ...

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Making Ignorance Great Again

By Diane Roberts If you’re wondering what happens when history is bowdlerized or suppressed, lies are enshrined, free enquiry stifled, empathy ridiculed, education crippled, ...

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U.S. Supreme Court Deals Blow to Florida’s Enforcement of Anti-Immigration Law in Rebuff to Uthmeier

A request by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier to at least temporarily permit the execution of a new state legislation that targets undocumented immigrants ...

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DeSantis Vetoes Target Black History and Minority Scholarships

A mentorship program for Black kids, a museum dedicated to Black history, and minority teacher grants were all vetoed by Governor Ron DeSantis. The ...

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Federal Appeals Court Endorses Florida Ban on Teachers’ Preferred Pronouns in Public Schools

A Florida teacher who contested a state law that prohibited transgender instructors from using their preferred pronouns while performing their official duties in the ...

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Christianity Has Long Revered Saints Who Would Be Called ‘Transgender’ Today

Written by Sarah Barringer Transgender rights have been curtailed in a number of Republican-led states: Iowa recently enacted legislation eliminating civil rights protection for ...

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