Thu Dec 1, 2022 – 4:35 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Educators in Florida have already started to be ousted from their leadership positions thanks to newly “anti-woke” school boards elected with the help of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
In August, 25 of 30 school board candidates endorsed by DeSantis and the anti-Critical Race Theory group 1776 Project PAC, based on their opposition to ideological indoctrination in the classroom, won elections, flipping the school boards of Miami Dade, Martin, Clay, Sarasota, and Duval counties from Democrat to Republican control. Last month, six out of six additional candidates won runoff elections.
As a result, Politico reported, more-conservative school boards have already forced out left-wing superintendents in Brevard and Sarasota counties. A third superintendent was ousted in Broward County, which was not part of the electoral sweep but has five new board members appointed by the governor.
“We had a wave in school districts that spit in parents’ faces,” Republican state Rep. Randy Fine said. “And now the people who did that are gone.”
In Sarasota, Superintendent Brennan Asplen came under fire for his implementation of a mandatory masking policy for three weeks, as well as student reading performance
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