LGBTQ+ topics are still banned from Florida class curriculum.
has been reached in the challenge against Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, HB1557, known by LGBTQ+ advocates as the "Don’t Say Gay" bill. The settlement, announced Monday, clarifies the scope of the legislation, which prohibits any classroom curriculum about sexual orientation or gender identity for students in kindergarten through third grade. It also restricts such lessons for older students.
Notably, the settlement includes clarification on library books, stating that library books with LGBTQ+ themes may not be banned under the legislation so long as they are not being used for instruction.that the bill will continue to be an effort to "keep radical gender and sexual ideology out of the classrooms of public school children."
"This allows us to now go back into the classroom and have teachers and parents, educators and kids and families all know the language they absolutely can say," Morrison said. "We can speak about our families and we can speak about who we are and that the law is not going to put that at any risk." "People have been afraid for two years," Houry told ABC News. "All of those families, teachers that could no longer put a picture of their families in a classroom, all the safe place that had been removed in different schools. The GSA, that it didn't feel safe that they could operate or couldn't find a faculty mentor to sponsor them."
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