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A group of students and professors at New College of Florida are suing the university’s trustees, interim president, and Florida education officials to stop the implementation of a new law prohibiting colleges from incorporating Marxist ideology into classroom curriculum. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida on Monday, the lawsuit brought by NCF Freedom Inc. and New College students and professors claims that SB 266 — which was signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis in May — violates the First Amendment “because it favors and permits speech which opposes ideas such as diversity, equity...

Officials in Florida's Manatee County School District are scrambling to comply with the state's recently implemented law demanding transparency in school libraries. Teams of volunteers have been combing through and cataloging the books in the county's roughly 60 schools. They flag any questionable books for review by certified specialists. Some teachers have covered up their classroom libraries out of fear they could face felony charges under the law that was enacted last year. "We've got to go classroom by classroom and start to catalog all the books in these classrooms to make sure that they're in our system if they're...