Students and teachers can discuss sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida classrooms, provided it’s not part of instruction. That’s according to a settlement reached Monday be…
ORLANDO, Fla. — Students and teachers can discuss sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida classrooms, provided it’s not part of instruction, under a settlement reached Monday between Florida education officials and civil rights attorneys who had challenged a state law which critics dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.”
Under the terms of the settlement, the Florida Board of Education will send instructions to every school district saying the Florida law doesn’t prohibit discussing LGBTQ+ people, nor prevent anti-bullying rules on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity or disallow Gay-Straight Alliance groups.
In a statement, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s office described the deal as a “major win” with the law formally known as the Parental Rights in Education Act remaining intact. Republican lawmakers had argued that parents should broach these subjects with children and that the law protected children from being taught about inappropriate material.
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