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On a Zoom meeting, the coalition of legal entities and advocacy organizations called on the DeSantis administration to reconsider this week鈥檚 education change, which outright outlawed state colleges from enrolling undocumented students.

In a telephone-only board meeting, the panel voted to require all students admitted to the state鈥檚 28 colleges to be a U.S. citizen or 鈥渓awfully present in the United States.鈥� The state colleges, once known as community colleges, must require students to present documentation before enrolling.

The new standards say using terms like "McCarthyism" and "Red Scare" is slander against anti-communists.

The new standards the board voted for on Thursday offer deeper analysis of the topic, guidelines for specific courses, material for students with special needs and paves the way to find textbooks that are "aligned" with the curriculum. The board also unanimously voted to make Florida the first state to adopt the Phoenix Declaration, a playbook for education outlined by a conservative think tank.

After only one year, Florida has temporarily suspended a highly controversial, statewide survey required under a new state law compelling public colleges and universities annually to ask students and faculty to identify political bias in college classrooms.

The Florida Board of Education unanimously passed a new rule that creates a stiffer penalty for those who want to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity.

Alleging that numerous courses and topics will be prohibited or 鈥渟everely curtailed鈥� by a new state law, a group that opposes Gov. Ron DeSantis鈥� efforts to remake New College of Florida filed a federal lawsuit challenging the measure.

After a reversal from state officials over gender and sexual orientation modules, the course can be taught in public high schools. Monroe County will offer an adapted version of the course but Palm Beach County schools will not be implementing it, while Broward and Miami-Dade counties are still evaluating the situation.

Civil rights activists cheered when Ron DeSantis pardoned four Black men wrongfully convicted of rape as one of his first actions as Florida鈥檚 new governor. But four years later, Black leaders decry what they call a pattern of 鈥減olicy violence鈥� against people of color imposed by the DeSantis administration.

The vice president's last-minute visit came in response to Florida's controversial new rules on the teaching of Black history.

The Florida Board of Education voted to approve new disciplinary policies for teachers who don鈥檛 comply with the expanded Parental Rights in Education law.

The State Board of Education on Wednesday approved new academic standards for instruction about African American history, after numerous teachers from across Florida objected to the changes and asked the board to put the proposal on hold.