Ryan Preece is reportedly okay after a terrifying accident.
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if material related to sexual orientation or gender identity is removed. Districts were encouraged to have teachers offer a modified version of the class.But the College Board, which runs the Advanced Placement program — through which high school students can earn college credits — said that any modified version of the class would not be compliant with college requirements, and could therefore cannot be called an “Advanced Placement” course.
Last week, the College Board said the course was “effectively banned” in the state and advised school districts not to offer the course — regardless of any preparations they’d already made.Since the course launched in 1993, it has asked students to “describe how sex and gender influence socialization and other aspects of development.” But experts familiar with the test say that the only real requirement is that students learn the definitions of, and differences between, sexual orientation and gender identity. Those experts argue that Florida is overreacting to any mention of LGBTQ-related topics in the course, despite actual instruction not delving deeply into the topic.Under the state’s so-called “Parental Rights in Education Act,” dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law by critics — not to mention rules and professional standards approved by the Florida Department of Education — teachers are prohibited from including lessons or providing “instruction” on sexual orientation or gender identity in all K-12 classrooms throughout the state.
Ryan Preece is reportedly okay after a terrifying accident.
This certainly was not a neighborly thing to do! A man in Florida has been accused of injecting a “chemical agent” underneath the front door of his upstairs neighbor’s apartment.
A new study shows that nearly 40% of Florida residents have considered leaving the state since the passage of the “Don’t Say Gay” law, with local Republicans encouraging the law’s detractors to follow through on such plans. According to a new survey by the Williams Institute, an LGBTQ policy think tank at UCLA’s School of Law, half of the 40% considering leaving Florida claimed they “very much so” wished to leave the state.Overall, 11% of survey respondents said they would likely move within the next two years.
The Walt Disney Co. filed a counterclaim against the Ron DeSantis-appointed board of a special district that covers its Florida theme parks, seeking damages and the enforcement of a set of development contracts.
to run for a U.S. Senate seat in Florida, TMZ confirmed.
Britain's biggest family have been ravaged by swarms of mosquitos on their 18th vacation in 20 months. Headed up by mum-of-22 Sue Radford and her husband Noel, this colossal brood flew Stateside earlier in the week, with various videos being uploaded to social media documenting their trip to Miami's Richmond West area, where temperatures reach 33 degrees with ease.
Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, currently polling 40 points behind GOP 2024 presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, in a rare TIME magazine interview refused to answer a reporter’s question about what he would do if one of his three children were LGBTQ – but he did spend time promoting his parents’ rights platform.“I think we were viewed, really from Day One, as the candidate that had the strong record on the issues important to parents,” the Florida Republican told TIME’s national political correspondent Molly Ball in a 30-minute interview at the Iowa State Fair published Wednesday,“’It has been an issue, really, from the beginning,’ he says of the ‘parents’ rights’ agenda that has been central to his struggling presidential candidacy. ‘And so I do think we’ve tapped into that, and we’ll continue to do it.'”Parents’ rights is the latest conservative code word for “family values,” as TIME’s national political correspondent Molly Ball notes.READ MORE: ‘We’re Gonna Start Slitting Throats on Day One’: DeSantis Makes New Deep State Pledge in Campaign RebootBut it really was really a platform the Florida governor grabbed after it proved to be a winning issue for Virginia Republican Glenn Youngkin in what had been a “long-shot” gubernatorial battle.
Former NFL running back Alex Collins has died in a tragic motorcycle crash in Florida. The ex-football star was traveling via
The large Radford family are officially taking another break – and fans are stunned to realise that it’s their 18th getaway in nearly as many months. Mum Sue Radford, 48, revealed that she’s taken her husband and their brood off to Florida for a summer getaway.The proud mum of a whopping 22 kids has shared a series of sweet clips of the little ones playing in the pool, messing about in a sandpit and exploring the resort.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis urged The Walt Disney Co. to drop its lawsuit against him, while telling CNBC that he has “moved on” from his battle with company and that it should drop the lawsuit against him.
law has led some administrators to censor any content that is sexual in nature unless it pertains to an academic standard.The Hillsborough County School District determined that many of Shakespeare’s works deal with or allude to sexuality (not to mention those works that contain cross-dressing characters), and should therefore be edited. As a result, some of the Bard’s classics, like Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet, now have been barred from the classroom, with students only reading excerpts of the plays in order to meet basic curriculum standards.The district said that teachers who violate the content restrictions for English classes could be subject to disciplinary action or have a complaint filed against them by a parent who believes the books or plays are “inappropriate” for minors to read.If a student wishes to read the censored plays in their entirety, they’ll have to pursue other ways of obtaining the texts on their own time, such as by seeking them out at a public library or privately-owned bookstore not subject to state regulation.Previously, English classes in the district required students to read at least two novels or plays during the school year.
its ban on a children’s book based on a true story about a male penguin couple that adopted an egg and raised the chick that hatched from it. Censors had flagged the book for violating the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law.Lake County Schools and officials with the Florida Department of Education subsequently asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit, brought by the authors of And Tango Makes Three and the parents of five school-age children, who alleged that the ban infringed on their First Amendment rights.According to Popular Information, the book was removed from library shelves because the penguin couple was the same sex.
Tekashi 6ix9ine is in some legal trouble.
Ron DeSantis’s attorneys say that The Walt Disney Co. lacks standing to sue him in the company’s federal lawsuit over the Florida governor’s moves to strip the company of control of a special district that covers its Orlando theme parks.
will no longer be permitted to read many of Shakespeare’s plays in full — due to sexual content.The decision is in accordance with the 2022 Parental Rights in Education Act, according to the board. The act, recently signed into law by Gov.
As Princess Beatrice celebrates her 35th birthday today (Tuesday, August 5), she can surely expect a lovely day surrounded by her young family. As well as husband Edoardo and their daughter Sienna, the couple are co-parents to Christopher Woolf Mapelli Mozzi (better known by his nickname 'Wolfie').The seven-year-old is Edo's son with US-born architect Dara Huang and has been fully embraced by Princess Beatrice - who has lovingly referred to him as her "bonus son". Wolfie's mum previously spoke about her young son on social media and expressed her thoughts on why she is so pleased he is educated in the UK, rather than in her native U.S.
A man in Florida has been arrested for the murder of his wife after her remains were discovered in suitcases last month!
All DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) programs at the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District that includes Walt Disney World have been abolished, District Administrator Glenton Gilzean announced today. The board of the area of Orlando formerly called the Reedy Creek Improvement District said the move will end “hiring and contracting programs that discriminated against Americans based on gender and race, costing taxpayers millions of dollars.”
Rauw Alejandro just announced last week that he and Rosalía called off their engagement and already he's sparking romance rumors with another singer.The 30-year-old Puerto Rican singer, also known as Raúl Alejandro Ocasio Ruiz, was spotted out and about in Florida, and just so happened to be at some of the same events as newly single Camila Cabello, who recently called it quits again with Shawn Mendes.However, a source tells ET that the two «are not dating.»«They happened to be at two of the same events at the same time, but they barely spent any time together at either event,» the source says. On June 25, both Alejandro and 26-year-old Cabello were photographed at the Leagues Cup 2023 match between Inter Miami CF and Atlanta United at DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Arthur is facing a potential ban from Florida schools after a conservative activist filed a complaint claiming that it could “damage souls”.Bruce Friedman, a member of the Clay county school district community in Florida, filed a complaint on July 12 against the 1989 book Arthur’s Birthday. In the book by Marc Brown, the titular brown aardvark discovers his birthday falls on the same day as another party for a classmate.At the end, Arthur receives a bottle gift from Francine with the words, “Francine’s Spin the Bottle Game” written across.According to the challenge (via The Daily Beast), Friedman believes the reference to spin the bottle is “not appropriate” for elementary school children.