Federal appeals court strikes down Florida law restricting teaching on race, gender

Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses the crowd before publicly signing HB7, "individual freedom," also dubbed the "stop WOKE" bill during a news conference at Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School in Hialeah Gardens on Friday, April 22, 2022. Daniel A. Varela/Miami Herald
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WLRN Public Media | By Daniel Rivero
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta has struck down core parts of a 2022 Florida law that restricted teaching about gender and race in higher education classrooms.

The appeals court ruled that the law is a “breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas from public discourse in the very places the State’s own statutes recognize as centers of inquiry — classrooms where students are trusted to puzzle through ideas that are good and bad, easy and hard, ideally getting ever closer to the truth.”

This story was originally produced by WLRN, South Florida’s only public radio station at 91.3 FM, as part of a content sharing partnership with MIA Media Group. Read more at WLRN.org

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