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Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #54

Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.

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Florida sees fewer manatee starvation deaths as feeding ends

The effort to feed thousands of pounds of lettuce to starving manatees in Florida manatees has officially ended for the winter season, as deaths of the marine mammals appear to be slowing despite the long-term threat of pollution to their main food source, seagrass

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Florida’s 6-week abortion ban likely to pass. What other hurdles exist?

Three weeks after it was filed, Florida’s six-week abortion ban has passed through its final committee in the Senate — and is scheduled to be heard by the full chamber later this week.

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Paper tiger: Trump neutralizes DeSantis

The Florida governor has been caught flat-footed by Trump's barrage of attacks

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Visitors flock to see Michelangelo's David sculpture after school uproar in Florida

Tourists , many American, flooded a museum in Florence, Italy, to see the Renaissance masterpiece after a Florida school forced its principal to resign over complaints about a lesson on the statue.

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Tourists flock to see Michelangelo’s statue of David after Florida censorship row

Florence’s mayor has extended an invitation to the teacher at the heart of the controversy to visit the Italian city

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DeSantis faces setbacks as potential Trump indictment looms over 2024 race

First came Ron DeSanctimonious. Then came RINO Ron, depicting Gov. Ron DeSantis as a Republican In Name Only. Over the weekend, the world got Ron Dukakis, conflating DeSantis with Democratic presidential loser Michael Dukakis.

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Editorial: An outrageous death penalty proposal, even for Florida

Florida Gov. LeRoy Collins’ hands trembled when he could no longer put off signing a death warrant. There would be 29 of them. His secretary said it made her physically ill to type them at first. But she got used to it.

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NCAA Final Four: Get To Know Florida Atlantic University Owls

NCAA Final Four: Get To Know Florida Atlantic University Owls First the Cougars, then the Paladins. This Saturday will the clock strike midnight for the Cinderella Owls as they face the Aztecs? Contact/Follow @tedmcgovern & @MWCwire FAU coach Dusty ...

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Miami Seaquarium, owner of NFL’s Colts tease announcement about last Puget Sound orca in captivity

SEATTLE — The Miami Seaquarium set a news conference Thursday to announce an initiative among the aquarium’s parent company, the owner of the Indianapolis Colts and a Florida nonprofit to “return beloved orca, Lolita,” to her home waters.

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Former Attorney General William Barr offers withering criticism, high praise for Trump — and kudos for DeSantis

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Former Attorney General William Barr praised former President Donald Trump’s “very successful administration” — and offered scathing criticism of his former boss Tuesday during a South Florida appearance about his life and 22 tumultuous months in the Trump administration.

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Ron DeSantis to deliver speech next month at conference in Israel, a nation in turmoil

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will travel to Israel next month as the country faces unprecedented protests over proposed reforms to its judiciary, an early foreign policy test of the potential presidential contender.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

David statue in Italy draws flood of tourists in wake of Florida uproar

Tourists, many of them Americans on spring break or studying abroad, posed for selfies in front of the giant marble statue, which features the Biblical David, naked with a sling over his shoulder and a rock in his hand, ready for battle with Goliath.

Chicago Sun-Times

Six-week abortion ban in Florida headed for full Senate vote. Law would be the strictest in nation

A proposed six-week ban on abortion cleared its last committee Tuesday and will head to the full Florida Senate for a vote.

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South Florida gives Republicans a playbook for the 2024 election

For the first time in two decades, South Florida turned red in the 2022 midterm elections, giving Republicans hope — and a playbook — for the presidential election in 2024.

Daily Mirror

Italians astonished as US teacher fired for showing children Michelangelo's David

Dario Nardella, Mayor of Florence, where the world-famous statue is kept, described the firing of principal at Tallahassee Classical School, Florida, Hope Carrasquilla as 'ridicolo'

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DeSantis to travel to Israel ahead of likely 2024 White House bid

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, expected to be a top contender for the 2024 U.S. Republican presidential nomination, will travel to Israel next month as the country is being riven by a crisis that has led to widespread protests.

The Independent UK

Florida school removes Disney movie about desegregation after one parent complains

‘A six-year-old girl can go to school every day with armed guards, but second graders can’t learn about it?’ Ric Davis says

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As more Republican states expand Medicaid to all, Florida lawmakers focus on kids

Florida is unlikely to expand Medicaid this year, as North Carolina and other Republican states have done recently, but lawmakers are pushing measures they say will expand health care for more children from low-income families.

The Independent UK

Visitors flock to see David sculpture after Florida uproar

Visitors have flocked to see Michelangelo’s David sculpture in Florence following the uproar over the Renaissance masterpiece at a Florida school

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Trump leads PredictIt’s 2024 Republican presidential primary market

As of March 27, 2023, PredictIt’s 2024 presidential market shows President Joe Biden (D) leading at $0.40, followed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) at $0.29, and former President Donald Trump (R) at $0.27. Biden has held the lead in this market since Jan. 22, 2023. No other candidate has…

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Residents of historically Black town sue to stop land sale

One of the first historically Black towns in the U.S. is suing the local school board to stop the sale of land that is tied up with Florida’s legacy of racial segregation and the state's fast-paced growth nowadays

The Independent UK

Two arrests after Florida father found fatally shot next to his unharmed four-year-old child

The child’s mother, 25-year-old Rachel Moore, and her former stepfather Jason Layne Curtis, 53, have been arrested

The Guardian - US

Florida school pulls anti-racism film Ruby Bridges after parent complaint

Elementary school in Tampa area withdraws screenings of Disney film that tells story of black student in segregated 1960s

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