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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMore DeSantis fascism
School superintendent who criticized DeSantis could lose jobFlorida officials are threatening to revoke the teaching license of a school superintendent who criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis, accusing the educator of violating several statutes and DeSantis directives and allowing his personal political views to guide his leadership.
Such a revocation by the state Department of Education could allow DeSantis to remove Leon County Superintendent Rocky Hanna from his elected office. The Republican governor did that last year to an elected Democratic prosecutor in the Tampa Bay area who disagreed with his positions limiting abortion and medical care for transgender teens and indicated he might not enforce new laws in those areas.
Disney also sued DeSantis this week, saying he targeted its Orlando theme parks for retribution after it criticized the governor's so-called Don't Say Gay law that then banned the discussion of sexuality and gender in early grades, but has since been expanded.
Hanna has publicly opposed that law, once defied the governor's order that barred any mandate that students wear masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, and criticized a DeSantis-backed bill that recently passed that will pay for students to attend private school. The Leon County district, with about 30,000 students, covers Tallahassee, the state capital, and its suburbs.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/school-superintendent-who-criticized-desantis-could-lose-job/ar-AA1arLS0
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Apr 2023
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Biophilic
(3,689 posts)1. DeSantis is so far out of control and the state legislature along with him.
I honestly cant imagine they think this is going to help them for reelection or that most of what they have put in place wont be reversed. Even in this state. I hope Im not wrong. These laws and activities seem way overboard even for the current Republican Party. I think and hope the backlash will be devastating to the gop slugs.
Timeflyer
(2,002 posts)2. Amazed the superintendent has lasted this long considering how DeSadist pushed school bd. candidates
that were MAGAt-approved during elections last August. The Sarasota school bd. fired a great superintendent (schools rated A for years) as soon as the magatty new members were sworn in last fall. Nobody's going to want to be an educator in Florida after DeSadist.