‘This is not a Trump-y, conservative education’: Florida’s controversial new SAT alternative

Will the Classic Learning Test bring truth and beauty' back into education - or is it fueling Ron DeSantis's extremist agenda?

From the don't say gay" law, which bans discussion of LGBTQ+ issues in the classroom, to laws helping parents challenge school library books they oppose, Ron DeSantis has turned Florida's public schools into a culture war battleground - and the implementation of his laws has often veered into absurd territory.

About 300 books were removed from library shelves last year. Some teachers have resorted to using only excerpts from Shakespeare plays to avoid any raunchiness" that might cost them their jobs. For DeSantis, the censorship is part of a so-called war on woke", intended to prevent the perceived indoctrination of students by leftwing influences.