Ryan Dailey - News Service of Florida

The workgroup developing the training includes members of the conservative group Moms for Liberty, who have aggressively voiced their concerns about the material children encounter at school.

Most of Florida’s county school districts did not meet a health department goal of 95% of kindergarten students receiving all doses of all vaccines required for school entry, according to the data. Required shots for seventh-graders are also down.

The proposed rule could be used “to censor viewpoints in support of LGBTQ+ youth and families,” Kara Gross, legislative director for the ACLU of Florida, said in a statement condemning the plan.

The Baker Act is a state law that allows courts, law enforcement officers, and certain medical workers to order people who could be a harm to themselves or others to be taken to facilities for up to 72 hours.

The university system’s Board of Governors is slated to consider a draft of the regulation, which lays out criteria that makes clear that compliance with the race-related instruction law would be considered.

Incumbent Democratic Sen. Janet Cruz was first elected to the state Senate in 2018 after spending eight years in the House. Republican Jay Collins served in the U.S. Army Special Forces and had multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Some characterized it as a way to provide transparency and others say it is potentially harmful to LGBTQ students.

While DeSantis backed legislation that intensified scrutiny of school library books and instructional materials, Crist says he is betting on his ability to convince voters that he can reinstate “respect to educators.”

Gov, Ron DeSantis warned that flooding is likely to occur “hundreds of miles" from where the storm made landfall in Southwest Florida, with the potential for record-setting flooding in what he characterized as a “500-year flood event.”

DeSantis said the storm’s track indicated an expected landfall around Levy County, but the track remained uncertain.