The big story: The State Board of Education and commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas doubled down on their efforts to enforce their interpretation of parental rights during a meeting Wednesday in St. Augustine.
The board found the Alachua County school board to have violated parents’ First Amendment rights in late July, and ordered the board to correct its ways with no deviations over the next year or face financial penalties, as WCJB reports.
Kamoutsas read passages from the memoir “Trans Mission” that he told Hillsborough County schools to remove earlier this month or face possible prosecution for providing children with access to harmful materials. After citing statutes he said explain why the material is unacceptable, and saying he expected all districts to “govern themselves accordingly,” Kamoutsas praised the state’s new prosecutor and said he was “committed to working with him” on this issue…