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Ron DeSantis suffers string of defeats in Florida school board races (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win to c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suffered a string of defeats in school board races in several counties on Tuesday.

The Republican governor, who has sought to reshape his state's education system by regulating how schools deal with subjects such as race, sexual orientation and gender, threw his support behind 23 school board candidates last month.

A majority of those candidates lost their races on Tuesday.

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"People want sanity. People want common sense. And people believe we should educate everyone," Long told The Associated Press. "The people have spoken."

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[–] SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Upvoted just for nincompoop. I haven't heard that in decades.