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77° F, Clear/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/SPCK5JSP7BBXJI3LQGOTCKHRO4.JPG "Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a roundtable on media libel laws on Feb. 7, 2023.")
Seated behind a news anchor-style desk, the governor did not offer specifics, but told viewers to “stay tuned.”
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/K2TSSVBBHNDFFK536BOLRB6SRQ.jpeg "The sign outside the Reedy Creek Improvement District administrative office building is seen on April 23, 2022, at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista.")
DeSantis was going to dissolve the board. Under a bill being taken up in special session, it would be renamed instead.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/6GKOOPIR2VDT7EMZE3PWBOOQWU.jpg "In this 2004 photo, then-Florida state Rep. Ed Jennings hugs Rosewood survivor Robie Allenetta Mortin after the unveiling of a historical marker for Rosewood, a Black community destroyed by racial violence in 1923.")
Only 11 of Florida’s 67 county school districts — including Hillsborough and Pinellas — are considered exemplary at meeting mandate that African American history be taught.
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/MRBLSZY4OJJXLPIRXHZZHYEOEE.jpg "President Joe Biden speaks about his infrastructure agenda while announcing funding to upgrade Philadelphia's water facilities and replace lead pipes, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, at Belmont Water Treatment Center in Philadelphia.")
He’s coming two days after the State of the Union address.
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/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/6AD2NKWHDUI6TBKNIBWI6S7HAY.jpg "U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is bringing Anabely Lopes, a Florida resident who had to leave the state for an abortion. as her guest at President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday.")
:format(webP)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/3H6DWGD6MWMX5JTE7UFTME2PQY.jpg "Florida Sen. Travis Hutson (R-Palm Coast) is leading a push to change the state's name, image and likeness law.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/MQ4LKWC5XBHOJNY2NPANELPKNQ.jpg "On his first day as the University of Florida's president, former U.S. Sen Ben Sasse talked about disruption and change in letters to the UF community.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/OOOT7YZNGZGUXI2GM63HKZ2O2A.JPG "City Attorney Randy Mora attends a meeting addressing short-term rental policies at the Indian Rocks Beach City Commission chambers on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, in Indian Rocks Beach.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/SVWFLYJQK7TT5GJMRTES6ORAFU.jpg "Former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club is seen in the aerial view in Palm Beach, Fla., Aug. 31, 2022.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/XEMPUQZIIV5XLQKWTRTDV37PGU.jpg "Police are lined up outside Plaza Live in Orlando on Dec. 28, 2022.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/K3YG3ALE5RDZLNIGSIEBRCFAJI.jpg "Marcos Marzo hugs two of his friends who came to say goodbye upon receiving the news that he had obtained a permit to travel to the United States, in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, Jan 25. Now in the U.S., his dream is to do a master’s degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and work as an engineer, which he says is his passion.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/LCLBSZAHHNA3VFUIZ3BADMCQM4.JPG "Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks to a crowd of supporters during his election night party at the Tampa Convention Center on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022 in Tampa.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/S6JNNY5QAJ6H5RXSBFDITRN2Y4.jpg "Annette Taddeo, a former state senator from Miami-Dade County, is running for chair of the Florida Democratic Party in 2023 and appears to be the choice of several state lawmakers.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/H6XHRUWKF4I6TODGIBWI6S7HAY.jpg "In a long-awaited move, Florida will double the number of medical marijuana licenses available in the state.")
:format(webP)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/VHCVMWCNX5BYDJEWSDCAUJMNK4.jpg "The Florida High School Athletic Association is considering adopting a national version of a medical form that doctors sign to clear students to play sports. The Preparticipation Physical Evaluation form used in Florida includes questions about concussions, allergies, and blood pressure. It also includes optional questions for female students about when they had their first period and how often they menstruate.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/SJOK3YR4GO2G6WUP3YYEVZB33A.jpg "Gov. Ron DeSantis held a splashy news conference in August to announce the arrests of about 20 people who allegedly voted while ineligible in 2020.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/HAULHGWRUYYUUV6X7TMAL6JP4I.jpg "An immigrant family brought to Martha's Vineyard, Mass., by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration heads toward a bus that will help relocate them to a military base on nearby Cape Cod, Mass.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/KHAUVFPX6ZFH7OCVJIN3KTM5QI.jpg "Former Tampa mayor Bob Buckhorn urges a crowd at the Oxford Exchange Thursday night to vote for City Council candidate and South Tampa business mogul Blake Casper.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/Z3HGC3PLNTMZKXXIS4D3IJ3WG4.jpg "The headquarters of Walt Disney World's Reedy Creek Improvement District in Lake Buena Vista, Wednesday, January 25, 2023.")
/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/W362SFAIN7AUXSVWGHJMYOA5DM.jpg "Florida House Speaker Paul Renner, center, is asking for documents and questioning the book selection process in Hillsborough County Public Schools.")
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/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/tbt/GHJTRYNYZVAULGCOZXKLBM373M.JPG "New College trustee and vice chair Ron Christaldi at the meeting of the New College of Florida Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday.")
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