Ron DeSantis spoke at New College of Florida and took on the state and national education establishments, touting his accomplishments as he attempts to remake Florida public education.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis addressed an audience at Sarasota's New College of Florida Saturday in a speech that touted the state's educational accomplishments and reforms and bashed the 'woke' stranglehold on academia. 'In the last 5½ years, there's been no state that has done more to reform and improve education. … We took on school choice. We made sure schools were open during COVID, battling school unions, all this stuff. So it was really, really good.
' FLORIDA EDUCATION COMMISSIONER SAYS STATES NEED TO BE MORE 'AGGRESSIVE' WITH POLICY, GO BACK TO BASICS Referencing the nationwide campus protests over the war in Gaza, DeSantis contrasted Florida's public education system with perceived Ivy League permissiveness and promised to deal with disruptions with a firm hand. 'Letting the inmates run the asylum doesn't work. So, you've seen a sickness in these universities.
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