‘Arthur’ book facing ban in Florida schools over claim it could “damage souls”

The Walt Disney Co. filed a counterclaim against the Ron DeSantis-appointed board of a special district that covers its Florida theme parks, seeking damages and the enforcement of a set of development contracts.

Idaho’s law is similar to laws in at least eight other states that have passed laws in recent years barring transgender students from using school facilities matching their gender identity — although it does not go as far as laws in North Dakota and Florida that go beyond schools to prohibit transgender people from accessing gender-affirming restrooms in some or all government buildingsHowever, Idaho’s law does contain what critics have called a “bounty” — in which cisgender students and their parents may sue schools for up to $5,000 if they find a transgender student using facilities that do not match that student’s assigned sex at birth. As a result, the plaintiffs have claimed, the law encourages people to seek out and harass transgender students in the hope of finding them violating the law in exchange for a monetary award.Under the now-blocked law, schools would have been required to provide a “reasonable accommodation” for transgender students unwilling or unable to use restrooms matching their assigned sex at birth.

law has led some administrators to censor any content that is sexual in nature unless it pertains to an academic standard.The Hillsborough County School District determined that many of Shakespeare’s works deal with or allude to sexuality (not to mention those works that contain cross-dressing characters), and should therefore be edited. As a result, some of the Bard’s classics, like Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet, now have been barred from the classroom, with students only reading excerpts of the plays in order to meet basic curriculum standards.The district said that teachers who violate the content restrictions for English classes could be subject to disciplinary action or have a complaint filed against them by a parent who believes the books or plays are “inappropriate” for minors to read.If a student wishes to read the censored plays in their entirety, they’ll have to pursue other ways of obtaining the texts on their own time, such as by seeking them out at a public library or privately-owned bookstore not subject to state regulation.Previously, English classes in the district required students to read at least two novels or plays during the school year.

its ban on a children’s book based on a true story about a male penguin couple that adopted an egg and raised the chick that hatched from it. Censors had flagged the book for violating the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law.Lake County Schools and officials with the Florida Department of Education subsequently asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit, brought by the authors of And Tango Makes Three and the parents of five school-age children, who alleged that the ban infringed on their First Amendment rights.According to Popular Information, the book was removed from library shelves because the penguin couple was the same sex.

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Ron DeSantis’s attorneys say that The Walt Disney Co. lacks standing to sue him in the company’s federal lawsuit over the Florida governor’s moves to strip the company of control of a special district that covers its Orlando theme parks.

if material related to sexual orientation or gender identity is removed. Districts were encouraged to have teachers offer a modified version of the class.But the College Board, which runs the Advanced Placement program — through which high school students can earn college credits — said that any modified version of the class would not be compliant with college requirements, and could therefore cannot be called an “Advanced Placement” course.

will no longer be permitted to read many of Shakespeare’s plays in full — due to sexual content.The decision is in accordance with the 2022 Parental Rights in Education Act, according to the board. The act, recently signed into law by Gov.

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The Office star Leslie Baker has announced that he is returning over $100,000 (£78,276) of donations fans sent to his Kickstarter campaign for a proposed Stanley Hudson spin-off.Baker went viral for launching the campaign back in 2020, but has been unable to get the project, titled Uncle Stan, off the ground. The show was set to centre around Stanley as he came out of retirement in Florida and travelled to Los Angeles to help his nephew save his motorcycle/flower business.The actor launched the campaign with a crowdfunding goal of $300,000 (£234,747).

Whether they’re kicking back in their $24million pad or cruising off on their luxury yacht, the Florida hotspot of Miami has been the Beckham family’s home away from home for years. But as Inter Miami CF president David continues to celebrate signing iconic footballer Lionel Messi to the team and their ongoing success, the family members who are rushing to spend summer with them are dwindling – with just youngest Beckhams Cruz, 18, and Harper, 12, joining their parents this year.And an insider close to the family tells heat that, as Victoria’s dreams of big family summers are becoming a thing of the past, she’s heartbroken at the idea of Harper feeling lonely.“The big Beckham family holiday was such a tradition,” our source says.

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One of the titles in the bestselling Arthur children’s book series faces a potential ban after a conservative claimant said that it “damaged souls.”

A Florida state court judge declined to dismiss The Walt Disney Co.’s effort to toss a lawsuit brought by the Ron DeSantis-appointed board that now oversees a special district covering the company’s Florida properties.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer Disney lost a bid on Friday to throw out a state court lawsuit that seeks to assert state control over future development of its Orlando theme parks. The ruling is the latest twist in the struggle between Disney and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over governance of the 40-square-mile area around Disney World.

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A nontheist advocacy organization is demanding that the Bible be banned from schools in a Florida school district, using the same justification that has been used to censor other literary works.Christopher Line, a staff attorney for church and state separation watchdog Freedom From Religion Foundation, formally requested the Bible be removed from library shelves in Leon County schools after the district pulled several other titles for mentioning sexual assault. The books that were banned include Dead End by Jason Myer, Doomed by Chuck Palahniuk, Lucky by Alice Sebold, Me, Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews, and Push by Sapphire.