Hey everyone, Mary Harris here. We're going to do something a little different today.

Producer Mary Wilson is taking the reins of the show. It's our last in a series on Florida's

Shifting Education Policy. She's going to take it from here.

This show has spent the past two days taking a look at what it's been like to go back

to school this year in Florida. We've heard from a former teacher and an education reporter

yesterday we brought you an interview with a gay student who led a protest of Florida's

plan to limit instruction around gay and gender-related themes. Today we are going to hear from

someone who supports the raft of new education policy in Florida.

The parental notification requirements, the curriculum standards, book approvals, new guard

rails on classroom instruction. There are many new rules all handed down by the state. School

boards and administrators are still figuring out how to follow them. So Madeline Duchamp,

who has produced this series, connected us with Bridget Ziggler, an elected official

who's at the center of this movement to have the state play a bigger role in local school

policy. Florida's Red Wave crashing down on woke education

yesterday. Florida flipped multiple major school boards from liberal to conservative.

Bridget Ziggler, Robin Maranelli and Timothy Innis, all newly elected Sarasota school board

members that were endorsed by Governor Ron DeSantis, join me now.

Bridget Ziggler has had a busy August. She won her reelection to the local school board

in Sarasota County. She also helped swing the ideological balance of the newly elected

board in a proudly conservative direction. I look at it as limited government principles,

there as a public school education institution, which is a government body that we need to

understand where our lines are. When we spoke to Bridget Ziggler, she told us that in

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