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Stand With Parents and Families Who Want Great Teachers, Safe Classrooms, and Kids Who Feel Valued
Equality Florida is rallying parents to sign a letter of support for teachers and LGBTQ students after Governor DeSantis and the Florida Department of Education sent a back-to-school letter urging parents to monitor and report teachers.
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Civil Rights and Parents Groups Denounce Effort to Erode Local Protections in Sarasota Public Schools
A coalition including the NAACP, Florida PTA, SPLC, and Equality Florida urged Sarasota County Public Schools to reject proposals stripping express enumeration from anti-discrimination and anti-bullying policies, calling it a capitulation to vague, nonbinding Trump administration anti-DEI guidance.
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Florida Parents, Lawmakers Call Out Vile Transphobic Attacks by Florida Legislature
Florida parents and Democratic lawmakers denounced HB 211, the Transgender Youth Medical Care Ban that would make providing gender-affirming care to trans minors a first-degree misdemeanor, while introducing legislation to repeal the 2021 Transgender Youth Sports Ban.
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Adoption bill removes ban on lesbian, gay parents from FL Statutes
House bill would remove unconstitutional adoption ban from Florida law The Florida House of Representatives voted Wednesday to remove a statutory ban on lesbian and gay parents that was enacted in 1977 but declared unconstitutional by a state appeals court in 2010. Since then, state officials have declined to enforce the ban, but it has remained in Florida Statutes.