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Florida’s struggle to teach Black history has become a battle over who controls the past

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — For 71 years, the survivors of Rosewood controlled their history. They guardedly discussed their stories only at family gatherings, haunted by the threat of retaliation in their rural Central Florida communities.

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Editorial: The pervasive threat of letting kids read the ‘wrong’ book

Florida hasn’t made reading a crime — not yet, anyway. But it’s doing the next worse thing by dangling threats of criminal charges against teachers and educators who share the “wrong” books with students.

Tribune News Service

Florida could force high school athletes to disclose their menstrual history

The Florida High School Athletics Association (FHSAA) will decide whether the controversial changes will come into effect, although critics suggest that transgender people are targeted

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As Florida Democrats sink into political quicksand, the party gears up for a new leader

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — After Florida Democrats suffered massive setbacks in November — even worse than their usual election losses — the search was on for someone to blame.

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Florida cites CRT, ‘Black Struggle,’ and communism in rejected African American course

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida rejected an Advanced Placement African American studies course because it contains critical race theory and state leaders objected to its lessons on “Black queer studies,” Black feminist thought and “the Black Struggle in the 21st Century,” according to the Florida Department of Education.

Orlando Sentinel

Head of Florida Democrats resigns after disastrous midterms

The head of the Florida Democratic Party has resigned after a disastrous midterm election in the onetime battleground state

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Florida Democratic Party chair resigns with frank letter after major 2022 losses

TAMPA, Fla. — Following months of pressure and a catastrophic 2022 election cycle for Democrats, the chair of the Florida Democratic Party, Manny Diaz, announced Monday that he is retiring, “effective immediately.”

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Scott Maxwell: Childhood immunizations drop in Florida, where public health is mocked

For most of humanity’s existence, most of us were all on the same team when it came to eradicating deadly diseases.

Orlando Sentinel

Potential Candidates For UNLV’s Next Head Coach

Listing potential replacements for Marcus Arroyo at UNLV.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Mario Cristobal’s Main Mission: Revive a Once-Proud Football Program at Miami

The Hurricanes look to return to relevance behind the Miami born-and-bred coach who helped them win two titles as a player.

Sports Illustrated

Editorial: Our schools have problems. Bathrooms aren’t among them

In a functioning Florida Legislature, state Rep. Randy Fine, R-Palm Bay, would be an outlier.

Tribune News Service

Dave Hyde: Pull up a chair, the Mario Cristobal Era is ready to start at University of Miami

Nostalgia is a wonderful thing. It’s just not Mario Cristobal’s thing. He remembers his final game playing at the University of Miami, of course, a clunker after four mostly golden years and can define it in a word if asked.

Tribune News Service

Mike Bianchi: What in heaven’s name happened to college football in Florida?

Several months before he passed away last summer, Bobby Bowden was on the phone reminiscing about the heyday of college football in Florida.

Orlando Sentinel

Florida GOP leaders call Mar-a-Lago search a ‘Third-World’ act. Miami exiles debate it

MIAMI — In blasting the unprecedented FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home this week, Florida Republican leaders revived a familiar theme: The targeting of a former president and political foe is something that could only happen in a “Third-World country.”

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Greg Cote: Miami raised Mario Cristobal. His payback: Come home & make Hurricanes football matter again.

MIAMI — Mario Cristobal has just finished his first fall practice of his first football season back home as head coach of the Miami Hurricanes. Inside the emptying echo of UM’s indoor practice facility on campus, Cristobal stands under the banners of storied former players in the rafters, including stars…

Tribune News Service

Nikki Fried is running for Florida governor. Is she an insider or an outsider?

TAMPA, Fla. — In spring 2003, the culture wars came to the University of Florida.

Miami Herald

Michelle Kaufman: There were hints at UM Media Day that Canes’ culture is changing under Mario Cristobal

Thirty-five years of sports writing teaches you to enter any team’s preseason Media Day prepared to hear mostly rehearsed overcoached platitudes (translation: boring quotes).

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DeSantis accused of extremism

The Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services had some firm words for her Governor

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Another change that must happen with UM football. And why it’s likely with Cristobal.

So much has changed with this UM football program - the quality of the coaching staff, the degree of discipline, the way tackling is taught, the pain-staking attention paid to correcting every single mistake on the practice field.

Tribune News Service

No more Turnover Chain: Mario Cristobal ending popular Hurricanes celebration

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Turnover Chain has been a part of Hurricanes sideline celebrations since 2017, but players won’t get to celebrate with the jeweled Cuban Link chain this season.

Miami Herald

DeSantis signs bill mandating communism lessons in class, as GOP leans on education

Public school teachers in Florida will soon be required to dedicate at least 45 minutes of instruction on “Victims of Communism Day” to teach students about communist leaders around the world and how people suffered under those regimes.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Many questions and few answers on math textbook ban

On the website of Houston-based Accelerate Learning is a group photo of young people, lined up and holding hands.

Miami Herald

DeSantis’ congressional map favors Republicans, likely diminishes Black representation

MIAMI — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday kept his promise and proposed a redistricting map that blows up the state’s current congressional districts, creates four additional Republican-leaning seats, and eliminates at least two districts now held by Black Democrats in North and Central Florida.

Miami Herald

Florida’s feuding over education laws is in national spotlight. GOP seizes the moment

MIAMI — Amanda Silvestri, a mother of two elementary school children, traveled from Palm Beach County to Tallahassee in January to tell state lawmakers she was concerned about what her kids were being taught in school.

Miami Herald

Following DeSantis’ lead, Florida lawmakers take aim at race discussions

TALLAHASSEE — The Republican majority on the Senate Education Committee on Tuesday advanced a measure that attempts to tackle one of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ top legislative priorities: barring the influence of critical race theory in schools and businesses across Florida.

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