Anti-LGBTQ activists will train Florida’s public school librarians on which books to ban

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The administration of Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is using the state’s Department of Education to create a “parent workgroup” consisting of right-wing book-banning advocates. The workgroup will train public school librarians on how to follow censorship rules signed into law by DeSantis earlier this year.

An August 12 memo from Education Department senior chancellor Jacob Oliva gave local K-12 schools a week to nominate “parents of students” to participate in the workgroup. The workgroup will train school librarians on how to review book collections within individual teachers’ classrooms, a measure meant to keep potentially inclusive texts out of students’ hands.

In its search for workgroup members, the department reportedly “passed on nearly 100 potentially qualified applicants with relevant experience,” according to a records review conducted by The Daily Beast.

“In Brevard County alone, it ignored the five submissions made by the bipartisan local school board, including the nomination of a former elementary school assistant principal, the director of Eastern Florida State College’s tutoring centers, and the administrator of a local scholarship fund,” the aforementioned publication wrote.

Instead, the department chose…

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