Ryan Dailey - News Service of Florida

The State Board of Education will meet Wednesday to examine LGBTQ support guides and bathroom policies for transgender students in 10 school districts to make sure they comply with state law.

Last school year marked a more than 10-year low for Florida’s kindergarten and seventh-grade students completing all doses of required immunizations, according to a recent report from the state Department of Health.

The Baker Act is a state law that allows courts, law enforcement officers and certain medical workers to order people who could be a harm to themselves or others to be taken to facilities for up to 72 hours.

A controversial law designed to restrict the way certain race-related topics can be taught in Florida classrooms could soon factor into a new tenure-review process for university professors. It's a proposal that higher-education officials will consider next week.

The rule was one of several the State Board of Education adopted this week. Among others: Teachers could lose their licenses of they violate Florida's new laws on race and gender instruction.

A committee put forward Republican U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse as the lone finalist to lead the state’s flagship university.

Lawson, a Democrat, insists he can pull off a win in a Republican-leaning district on Nov. 8.

Tropical storm-force winds could start affecting the Florida Keys late Monday, Central Florida on Tuesday night and the Panhandle on Wednesday. The National Hurricane Center said flash flooding and urban flooding is possible in the Keys and the Florida peninsula, with additional flooding on rivers in North Florida.

Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker called part of the law a “naked viewpoint-based regulation on speech."

Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to recruit retired law enforcement officers, emergency medical technicians, paramedics and firefighters to become teachers.