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</div><div><b>late last month a Florida teacher posted a video of a school library where almost every shelf was empty. The video went viral, getting millions of views. Now, the teacher who posted that video has been fired.</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Earlier this week Governor Ron DeSantis was asked about the video, he claimed it was a “fake narrative,” and “not true.” DeSantis told reporters the shelves were empty because “they hadn’t put the books out yet to begin with.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>School libraries at the end of January rarely have empty shelves because librarians hadn’t gotten around to filling them.</div><div>
</div><div><b>“Brian Covey, a substitute teacher at Mandarin Middle School, posted a video on Jan. 27 showing rows of empty bookshelves in the school’s library. The jarring video quickly went viral and now has over 13 million views, it made national headlines and was even fodder on a late night talk show,” First Coast News reports</b>.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">“On Wednesday, nearly three weeks after the video was posted, Covey said he was fired.”</span></div><div>
</div><div>“In discussion between the district and ESS,” a statement from Duval County Public Schools reads, “regarding this individual’s misrepresentation of the books available to students in the school’s library and the disruption this misrepresentation has caused, it was determined that he had violated social media and cell phone policies of his employer. Therefore, ESS determined these policy violations made it necessary to part ways with this individual.”</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>ESS, First Coast News reports, is the company that hires substitute teachers. </b>Their statement does not say what was allegedly misrepresented.</span></div><div>
</div><div>On January 31, First Coast News spoke with Covey, before he had been fired.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Their report, and many others, state that because of DeSantis’ laws, administrators or librarians have to review every book in the entire school.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But DeSantis told reporters reviewing a book should only take “two minutes,” and said his Dept. of Education would be happy to help school officials if they had a question about a specific book.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During that same press conference, DeSantis was asked why a popular book about baseball great Roberto Clemente had also been pulled from school shelves.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Florida governor, expected to launch a presidential campaign soon, lashed out at the reporter, first blaming “politics,” then “teachers’ unions,” then claiming the story itself was “a joke” and “manufactured” while never accepting the impact the legislation he has supported, promoted, signed into law, and used to brand himself as a protector of children has had a devastating effect on those very children he claims to want to protect.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>DeSantis appeared to be wholly uninformed as to what schools and students are going through as a result of his laws, which include his “Don’t Say Gay” law.</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“More than 1 million books in Duval County schools in Florida are subject to review due to three state laws impacting certain subjects in education, including race, gender and sexual orientation,” ABC News reported this week, confirming the Roberto Clemente book was pulled from school shelves, citing communication from county officials.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“As required by state law, we are in the process of having certified media specialists review all classroom library books,” Tracy Pierce, chief of marketing and public relations at Duval County Public Schools told ABC News. “There are approximately 1.6 million titles in our classroom and media center libraries that need to be reviewed by a certified media specialist.</span>”</div><div>
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</font></div><div><p style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span>Popular Information<span> </span></span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/2209a68c-7f9b-418f-8c6a-7c424d518653?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw" style="text-decoration: underline;">exposed</a><span><span> </span>the
real consequences of laws and regulations imposed on teachers by
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Teachers in Manatee County were advised
to make their classroom libraries inaccessible or face felony
prosecution. </span></font></p><p style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Our
reporting is now under attack by the Florida Commissioner of Education,
Manny Diaz Jr. He called Popular Information "fake news" and claimed we
were "too lazy" to read Florida law.</strong><span><span> </span>But,
as you'll learn below, Popular Information's reporting was completely
accurate. Diaz Jr., on the other hand, is grossly representing his own
department's guidance. </span></font></p><p style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Popular
Information is a three-person newsletter, but we can rattle the cages
of some of the most powerful politicians in the country. <strong>
</strong></font></p><div class="yiv9180276196post yiv9180276196typography" style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: 26px; padding: 16px 0px 0px;"><div class="yiv9180276196body yiv9180276196markup" style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 16px; text-align: initial; width: 550px;"><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">the Florida Commissioner of Education, Manny Diaz Jr., lashed out at Popular Information's<span> </span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/2209a68c-7f9b-418f-8c6a-7c424d518653?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw" style="text-decoration: underline;">recent reporting</a></span><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> on Florida classroom libraries, </span>calling it "</span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/1aa4f1d3-9813-4ac5-be1c-c582b4f6f119?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw" style="text-decoration: underline;">fake news from media activists too lazy to read [Florida] law</a><span>." But Popular Information's reporting was completely accurate — and later confirmed by other outlets, including the<span> </span></span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/2433dde1-8181-4bfa-99d5-3c5f80693ecc?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw" style="text-decoration: underline;">Washington Post</a><span>. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It was Diaz, in an<span> </span></span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/b5582433-2101-44a8-a7d9-27ea1635fc80?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw" style="text-decoration: underline;">interview</a><span><span> </span>published
Monday by the conservative National Review, who grossly misrepresented
his own department's guidance in an effort to defend Governor Ron
DeSantis (R).</span></span></font></p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span>On January 23, Popular Information<span> </span></span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/2209a68c-7f9b-418f-8c6a-7c424d518653?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw" style="text-decoration: underline;">reported</a><span><span> </span>that
teachers in Manatee County, Florida are being told to make their
classroom libraries inaccessible to students, or risk felony
prosecution. A memo created by the Manatee County School District, and
distributed to principals, instructed teachers to "remove or cover all
classroom libraries until all materials can be reviewed." </span></font></p><div class="yiv9180276196captioned-image-container-static" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 32px auto;"><table class="yiv9180276196image-wrapper" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="word-break: normal; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></td><td class="yiv9180276196content" style="word-break: normal; text-align: center;" width="1350" align="left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/4b67da91-bcff-4fc2-b61c-e5390409d03f?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw" class="yiv9180276196image-link" style="text-decoration: none; border: medium none; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: auto;"><img alt="" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2Fw_2700%2Cc_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252F4f970dc9-6ed2-43d1-9157-bc337431edeb_1350x452.png&t=1675288440&ymreqid=5b97f7b6-4cda-3c8f-1cbf-af02f2017300&sig=cn3ZKnc1d1l8tRQuAlyhHw--D" class="yiv9180276196wide-image" style="text-indent: -9999px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; vertical-align: middle; border: none !important; max-width: 100%; width: auto !important;" width="550" height="184.14814814814815" /></a></font></td><td style="word-break: normal; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kevin
Chapman, the Chief of Staff for the Manatee County School District,
told Popular Information that at the same January 18 meeting where the
memo was distributed, principals were advised that teachers that fail to
comply with the rules regarding classroom libraries could face stiff
penalties, including third-degree felony charges. This message was
passed on to Manatee County teachers. </font></p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span>Diaz<span> </span></span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/b5582433-2101-44a8-a7d9-27ea1635fc80?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw" style="text-decoration: underline;">told the National Review</a><span><span> </span>that
teachers who packed up their classroom libraries were simply
participating in a "stunt" intended to damage DeSantis politically. “I
think this is clearly an intentional effort to cause confusion and make
it look like the state of Florida, the governor, the legislature, are
trying to ban books or trying to create this authoritarian state,” Diaz
said. </span></font></span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Diaz said that teachers were free to "apply common sense</span>
when examining their classroom libraries" and only remove books that,
in the teacher's opinion, are in a "gray area." More from Diaz:</font></p><blockquote style="border-left: 4px solid rgb(237, 118, 50); margin: 20px 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When
you’re looking at these, if there’s something in a gray area that you
think could be an issue, pull that book aside and have it vetted by the
process to make sure that indeed it should be in that library. That
doesn’t mean that you cover your library or shut it down.</font></p></blockquote><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span>Diaz's recommendations to teachers<span> </span></span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/74f19002-3101-414c-a8c3-fb5e9070cac6?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw" style="text-decoration: underline;">directly contradicts the training produced by his own agency</a><span>,
the Florida Department of Education. Slide 22 of the training says that
only a "certified media specialist" can select materials for any school
library, including classroom libraries. </span></font></span></p><div class="yiv9180276196captioned-image-container-static" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 32px auto;"><table class="yiv9180276196image-wrapper" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="word-break: normal; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></td><td class="yiv9180276196content" style="word-break: normal; text-align: center;" width="1456" align="left"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/9f612b96-1121-41a9-9db2-2987eb543535?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw" class="yiv9180276196image-link" style="text-decoration: none; border: medium none; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: auto;"><img alt="" src="https://ecp.yusercontent.com/mail?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2Fw_2912%2Cc_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252F3d45b32e-d18f-4348-88ca-ff4187b7fc5f_1600x305.png&t=1675288440&ymreqid=5b97f7b6-4cda-3c8f-1cbf-af02f2017300&sig=BZgJrZwfTk_oI2earCAYBQ--D" class="yiv9180276196wide-image" style="text-indent: -9999px; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; vertical-align: middle; border: none !important; max-width: 100%; width: auto !important;" width="550" height="105.01373626373626" /></a></font></td><td style="word-break: normal; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span>(Although the slide focuses on elementary classrooms, another<span> </span></span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/0771fbb0-b459-4929-bc43-7994a152333c?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw" style="text-decoration: underline;">rule</a><span>,
adopted by the Florida Department of Education on October 19, 2022,
defines classroom libraries in all grades as a type of school library.)</span></font></p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span>The<span> </span></span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/74f19002-3101-414c-a8c3-fb5e9070cac6?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw" style="text-decoration: underline;">training</a></b><span><b><span> </span>reminds media specialists that making material "harmful to minors" available could result in felony prosecution</b>.
It also urges media specialists to "err on the side of caution" with
all books. Diaz pretends all this guidance does not exist, and that, for
the most part, teachers can continue to curate classroom libraries
independently.</span></font></p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Diaz also<span> </span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/b5582433-2101-44a8-a7d9-27ea1635fc80?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw" style="text-decoration: underline;">said</a><span><span> </span>that
teachers' concerns are unwarranted because only materials deemed
"harmful to minors" would result in a "third-degree felony." This is
cold comfort because right-wing activists and their allies in government
consider<span> </span></span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/5cd4d564-5f73-4b12-8fbb-01562ac6dced?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw" style="text-decoration: underline;">books by Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison pornography</a></span><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.</span>
Further, Diaz notes that a teacher who allows books that are unvetted
and inappropriate — but not "harmful to minors" — "would be addressed
through an a<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">dministrative
process." That administrative process could result in a teacher having
their license revoked and losing their job. </span></span></font></p><h3 class="yiv9180276196header-with-anchor-widget" style="font-size: 1.375em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Teachers are still in the dark</strong></font></h3><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Diaz
encouraged teachers to exercise "common sense" regarding their
classroom libraries. But the Florida Department of Education will not
answer basic questions about what kind of books are permitted in Florida
schools.</span> </font></p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Specifically,
the recently enacted Parental Rights In Education Act, known as "Don't
Say Gay," prohibits all instruction on "sexual orientation or gender
identity" in K-3 classrooms and instruction in other grades that is "not
age appropriate or developmentally appropriate." The STOP Woke Act,
another new law, limits discussion and instruction of certain racial
issues. The laws appear to be limited to "classroom instruction." But
can materials that would violate these laws be made available in a
classroom library?</font></span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span>The
training issued by the Florida Department of Education doesn't answer
that question. The Florida Association for Supervisors of Media (FASM)
requested that the Florida Department of Education clarify the issue.
But, as the Washington Post<span> </span></span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/5a1aca93-1d80-4b4f-b677-a6f61e98a567?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw" style="text-decoration: underline;">reported</a><span><span> </span>last
week, the Department has yet to respond. “They will not tell us in
writing,” Michelle Jarrett, the president of FASM, said last week.
"We’re not getting a clear message.”</span></font></p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span>It
is a critical question. Applying the "Don't Say Gay" and the "STOP
Woke" laws to classroom libraries would likely mandate the removal of
scores of books. A teacher found to be in violation of either law is
subject to the "</span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/93a4be50-378c-4a85-b452-bc90eb486194?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw" style="text-decoration: underline;">revocation or suspension of the individual educator's [teaching] certificate</a><span>." It is a career-ending offense.</span></font></p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Popular
Information asked Chapman if Manatee teachers should remove books from
classroom libraries that are not consistent with the "Don't Say Gay" and
the "STOP Woke" laws. "In regards to books in school media centers or
classrooms, the School District of Manatee County is abiding by all
applicable laws and statutes of the state of Florida, and adhering to
the guidance of the Florida Department of Education," Chapman replied,
not answering the question. </font></p><h3 class="yiv9180276196header-with-anchor-widget" style="font-size: 1.375em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>"Woke-busters"</strong></font></h3><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Teachers
in Manatee County are required to look up all of the titles in their
classroom libraries, determine which ones are already available in the
library (and therefore have already been vetted by a librarian), and
remove any unvetted books. But, at a school board meeting last week,
Manatee County Schools' Director of Curriculum, Laurie Breslin,
acknowledged that this was a time-consuming process that most teachers
did not have the capacity to do during the school year. Therefore,
Breslin said, the county was soliciting volunteers to assist teachers
with this process. </font></p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span>Right-wing activists hostile to Florida teachers are seizing on the opportunity. The Manatee Patriots is seeking "</span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/aeb84d60-8997-49e2-acc0-5314d8120421?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw" style="text-decoration: underline;">Woke Busters</a><span>" to "SAVE the CHILDREN and OUR Society."</span></font></span></p><div class="yiv9180276196captioned-image-container-static" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 32px auto;"><table class="yiv9180276196image-wrapper" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td style="word-break: normal; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They are urging their members to "get into the school Libraries" and determine whether teachers are "following the laws."<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Volunteers are urged to "be on watch for anything that looks inappropriate," including "activism" and "globalism." </span></font></p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span>Chad Choate, the chair of the Manatee County School Board who was appointed by DeSantis, was the<span> </span></span><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/redirect/3df3d929-c905-4db1-92ec-8cba3adc4a1d?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw" style="text-decoration: underline;">featured speaker</a><span><span> </span>at a meeting of the Manatee Patriots on Tuesday night. </span></font></p></div></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />
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