As of Feb. 6, the driver’s license exam and its instructions will be administered exclusively in English, following a new directive from Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.
Previously, the exams and instructions for obtaining a driver’s license or a permit were available in multiple languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, French and Russian.
The change poses a disruption for Florida’s large non-English-speaking communities. In 2023, over one in five Florida households reported speaking primarily Spanish at home. Haitian Creole was the second-most-common non-English language, at a little over 2% of households…