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The middle school standards approved by the Florida state education board say students should learn about "skills" learned by slaves that could be "applied for their personal benefit." Several historians who have studied slavery cast doubt on this lesson’s educational value.
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DeSantis claimed that "some liberal states" have post-birth abortions. There is no evidence to support this. Killing an infant after birth is infanticide and is illegal in all 50 states.
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The message spoken in the ad accurately reflects what Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, but he did not speak those words himself.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed multiple bills that could lead to lower premiums in the future. For now, Florida homeowners face the highest insurance bills.
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Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis said, "The agencies and government have grown 50% since 2019." By the commonly used outlays measure, his claim is close. We found it half true.
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PolitiFact and WLRN explain the slight tend of more Floridians moving to California per capita rather than the other way around.
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An Instagram post claimed that Miami-Dade County banned Gorman’s poem from elementary schools. PolitiFact and WLRN found there was no countywide effort to remove this poem.
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Florida school districts have removed some books entirely while restricting others to certain grades or requiring students to get parental permission to see them.
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PolitiFact and WLRN fact-checked claims about critical race theory, immigration and schoolbook bans made by Gov. Ron DeSantis' during his presidential announcement with Elon Musk on Twitter.
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Religion's role in politics and public policy is in the spotlight heading toward the midterm elections. That’s as relatively few Americans consider it…