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Florida to spend up to $15 million on school material review technology for DeSantis laws
Transparency or censorship? Florida is spending millions on a new tool for the public to review and object to school instructional materials and books.
"More often, these systems are meant not to serve actual parents interested in what their own children are learning but to provide a way for ideologically motivated actors, including those with no connection to the school, to comb through this data to hunt for material to which to object," she continued. The company specifically says its mission is to maintain compliance with the Parental Rights in Education Act ( HB 1557), known for restricting classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in public schools. And, in the weeks before the appropriation was approved and the state posted a request for bids, the department argued to an administrative law judge that its rules implementing the school library statute wouldn't have regulatory costs.
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