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DeSantis And Florida Took the Janus Decision to Its Next Logical Step

Teacher’s Unions are sinister private entities whose only concern is how much money they can make and how best to use that to impact politics at every level of government. Sure, Janus v. AFSCME was a great decision, but the war against public employee unions continues, and Ron DeSantis is leading that fight.

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School Choice: Florida Leads the Way

I just read (in Reason) that about half of Florida students are participating in some kind of school choice program. So I thought: Wow, things must be looking up in Florida, right? Academic achievement must be soaring because of all that freebie market competition.

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Banning AP Courses? As If.

Florida may have banned its public schools from teaching the AP Psychology course. That is, it may or may not be true that the course contains material that is prohibited by a recent law from inclusion in public school curricula.  But this rather misses the point, I think.  Or rather, a couple of important points. …

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Florida Probate: Nothing to Fear

Although there are various strategies to “avoid” probate anywhere, there are two general situations in which New Hampshire residents may have to deal with probate matters in Florida. Those situations are (a) a NH resident dies owning Florida real estate, typically a vacation residence; and (b) a NH resident has a relative who dies as …

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Middle Schoolers Cannot Handle Slavery

I heard the line today that became the title of this article, and I choked on my drink. The topic for today is the new Black History Curriculum developed in Florida for Middle Schoolers. Governor DeSantis assembled a team of scholars, including two Black intellectuals, to write an accurate account of slavery in America.