The governor opened Black History Month by announcing plans to ban funding for diversity programs at state colleges.
Alex Ingram worked in Duval County for eight years teaching seventh-grade civics and also African American history and AP government. The final nail in the coffin for his teaching career in Florida came after one of his students, who was outed by a family member and forcefully unhoused, was unable to receive help from an LGBTQ+ advocacy group for young adults after Duval County public schools had to break ties with the organization under the new law.
Resigning from his position publicly last December during a school board meeting was a courageous feat that Ingram knew many of his colleagues were not in a financial position to do. He’s now teaching in New England, but he still worries about the future of education in Florida. Ingram says that DeSantis’s expansion of
and the defunding of public schools mirror the same strategies legislators used after the Supreme Court caserequired integrated schools in the late 1950s through the 1970s, resulting in the same hysteria that caused white parents to enroll their kids in“For about 20 years we have witnessed in Florida a war on public education,” Ingram says. “And it's been battles that have been death by 1,000 cuts.
The Education Law Center, an organization that seeks to “promote fair and equitable school funding, racial justice, and effective school reform” released ain 2021 called “Making the Grade” ranking each state on K-12 funding in three categories: funding level, funding distribution, and funding effort. Florida and Nevada were the only states to receive “F scores” in each category.
Like Ella, Ingram wants everyone to know that what actually happens in the classroom is nothing like the narrative being set by the DeSantis administration. “If everything goes right, [students] might become a little bit sharper than when they got there. But at the end of the day, I have to keep them safe. That is my number-one job. And all of these laws, whether it's the Stop W.O.K.E.
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