DeSantis tweaks Florida book challenge law, blames liberal activist who wanted Bible out of schools

Source: Associated Press

DeSantis tweaks Florida book challenge law, blames liberal activist who wanted Bible out of schools

BY BRENDAN FARRINGTON
Updated 5:42 PM EDT, April 16, 2024

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Two years ago, Democrats repeatedly and forcefully warned Republicans and Gov. Ron DeSantis that a new law making it easier to challenge school books was so broadly worded that it would create havoc across the state.

Now they can say, “I told you so.”

DeSantis backtracked on the 2022 law on Tuesday when he signed a bill narrowing its focus. He blamed liberal activists for abusing the law, not the citizens whose objections to certain books account for the majority of book removals from school libraries and classrooms.

“The idea that someone can use the parents rights and the curriculum transparency to start objecting to every single book to try to make a mockery of this is just wrong,” DeSantis said the day before the bill signing. “That’s performative. That’s political.”

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