Stop WOKE Act

DeSantis has often said rulings that halt his legislative priorities are likely to be reversed by appeals courts in Florida that are generally more conservative.

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.

Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker last month issued a preliminary injunction, agreeing with three businesses and a consultant that the workplace-training restrictions in the “Stop WOKE Act” violate the First Amendment.

The lawyers raised a series of arguments that the "Stop WOKE Act" violates speech rights.

Governor Ron DeSantis is reshaping school boards in Florida. He's exerting control over local school policies, including how they teach children about race and sexual orientation.

The Stop Woke Act, Parental Rights in Education law, and new rules about curriculum transparency are changing school practices across the state.

A local Rotary Club and nonprofit have given dictionaries to Sarasota, Fla., schools for over a decade. The district declined this year amidst amidst a book freeze while it navigates a new state law.

The Parental Rights in Education law and the Stop WOKE Act have caused some confusion among teachers and school districts as they try to work out what can and can’t be said to avoid lawsuits.

The ruling comes the same day a third lawsuit —this one by a group of university professors and a student—was filed. DeSantis has championed the law as an effort to prevent teaching "our kids to hate our country or hate each other."

The lawsuit claims the law amounts to “racially motivated censorship” that will act to “stifle widespread demands to discuss, study and address systemic inequalities” in society.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs argued that the law, which DeSantis calls the "Stop WOKE Act," violates the First Amendment and are seeking a preliminary injunction to block its enforcement.

It puts restrictions on how race and sexism can be addressed in public school classrooms and workplaces. The businesses say it violates their free speech rights.