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Now, there's a whole lot of speculation about what Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' national

ambitions might be.

So on the main show recently, we took a look at what the governor's impact on Florida

K-12 education has been so far.

We really wanted to get inside classrooms and on the ground, and I encourage you to listen

to that full hour.

One of the things we talked about is this.

In July 2022, Governor DeSantis signed Florida House Bill 1467, which required beginning

in January of this year, that schoolbooks must be reviewed by a district employee holding

a valid educational media specialist certificate to ensure that those books are free of pornography

or certain race-based teachings.

And Governor DeSantis signed the bill as part of his Year of the Parent Initiative that

aims to give parents the right to make decisions regarding their children and their education.

While soon after the law went into effect, so a little bit earlier this year, videos

started popping up on social media, specifically from Duval and Manatee County Schools, and

the videos were of school libraries totally emptied of books.

Well, here's what Governor DeSantis said when asked by a local reporter about the controversy

created by those videos.

What they're trying to do is they're trying to act like somehow, you know, we don't want

books.

And some of the narratives that you hear, you hear people talk about felony charges,

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