MIAMI — Standing behind a sign proclaiming “curriculum transparency,” Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed into law a measure setting added requirements for schools as they select books.
“I think it’s going to help give parents a lot of confidence that they can send their kids to school and they’ll get an education but they’re not necessarily going to be indoctrinated in things that are very, very questionable,”said DeSantis, who signed the bill at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach.
In recent months, parents in several counties have urged their school districts to remove titles that they have deemed pornographic, and questioned how they landed on the shelves in the first place. Many relate to LGTBQ coming of age stories such as “Gender Queer,” a graphic novel that Pinellas County schools pulled and which DeSantis specifically mentioned.
