#SystemFail

#TampaBayTimes
Stop allowing zealots to waste Florida school districts’ time and money | Editorial

A very small number of people have made the vast majority of book challenges in Florida.

"... just two people ...are responsible for almost half of the book banning attempts made in Florida schools over the last year.

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2023/09/03/stop-allowing-zealots-waste-florida-school-districts-time-money-editorial/?itm_source=parsely-api

by #RomyEllenbogen in The #TampaBayTimes:

"Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday vetoed a bill that would allow adults to get their criminal record expunged even if they had an expungement as a juvenile.

"Under current Florida law, someone cannot get their criminal record expunged as an adult if they had an offense scrubbed as a juvenile. The bipartisan bill, HB605, would give someone a second chance, so long as they weren’t charged for the previous crime as an adult. It was approved nearly unanimously in both the House and the Senate."

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/06/27/desantis-veto-bill-second-chances-criminal-record-expungement/

#Florida #veto #expungement #CriminalRecord #RonDesantis #Desantis

"As #US secretary of education, as well as a father and lifelong #educator, here’s what I know to be true: Parents don’t want politicians dictating what their children can learn, think and believe. That’s not how public #education is supposed to work in a #FreeCountry."

#MiguelCardona
Opinion,
#TampaBayTimes
March 16, 2023

#PublicEducation #Florida #BannedBooks
#StopFascism

https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2023/03/16/us-education-secretary-i-want-us-enrich-public-schools-not-ban-books-topics-column/

Backstory for "River's Bend," Charles Morgan (1929-2023), 2018. Oil on canvas, 15"x30." He started painting in his 70's.

#CharleyMorgan #CharlesMorgan #CharlesEMorgan #americanpainter #americanartist #americanart #landscape #landscapepainting #stjohnsriver #oldflorida #florida #tampabaytimes

#DeSantis’ record toward #LGBTQ people is worse than T***p’s
#TampaBayTimes #TBTimes
https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2022/11/25/desantis-record-toward-lgbtq-people-is-worse-than-trumps-column/