Attacks on Florida have increased sharply since Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) announced he was running for president. They have been focused on everything from housing to guns to Disney. However, the most frequent area of political attack on Florida recently has been education. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) tweeted out a picture suggesting Florida was keeping children from reading books, Politico ran a headline reading “Ron DeSantis upended education in Florida. He’s coming for your state next,” and travel advisories for Florida coming from the NAACP and others focused on DeSantis’s education policy. I could go on.
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