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Bills pushing to deregulate public education

A set of three different bills were unanimously passed in the Florida Senate this week and now are in the hands of the House. All evolve around deregulating public education in different ways.

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Florida school district pulls dictionaries and encyclopedias as part of “inappropriate” content review

One school district in Florida is looking to extend the state’s book ban to an unexpected genre: dictionaries. According to a list obtained and published by the nonprofit PEN America, the Escambia County school district has included five dictionaries, eight encyclopedias and “The Guinness Book of World Records,” in its list of more than 1,600 books that could soon be banned.