guest: a couple of thingsthe state of florida for over two 80% of school board members haven't registeredrepublicans with majorities in over 85% of the counties holding school board seats. they felt the majority and our florida house, the florida senate and the governor's mansion for over two decades. when people talk abo responsible for the things in our schools, the reality is in the state of florida it has been the republican party. we have issues with what is going on. that's the people we shou beagain, families have a right to opt out of curriculum and lessons they do with their children having. you have questions you have a right to ask what they are being taught. in flo, plus state. we have limited -- abstinence plus state.we have limited sex education and is not happening at younger grades. in new jersey democrat caller: i'm a retired publix will teacher in the state of new jersey. i think a lot of the controversy about what librarians are putting books on the that they are inappropriate or whhelves. there's usually aommittee of teachers and librarians they get a chance to study,

florida schools. but many activists at the grassroots are pushing back. last week florida's education boardith social studies curriculum that talks about how african americans learned useful skills from slavery, even as the state bans books and so-called critical race theory. joining me now is jennifer jenkins, the chair of the new pac educated we stand and florida school board third districts democratic member. thank you for joining me today. let me go right to it. i've been following the situation in the sunshine state closely in my capacity as the head of the national action network. i've traveled there to demonstrate against the erasing of black history, can you talk about the current state of our schools in florida? >> yeah, i mean, absolutely. you know, just watching the recent comments of congressman byron donalds it's disturbing but not surprising coming from the state of florida. i live in brevard county, the home of civil rights leader moore. he fought for equal pay for black teachers. he founded our first chapter of our naacp and registered over 100,000 african americans to vote.

thingsthe str two decades, 80% of school board members haven't registered republicans with maj over 85% of the counties holding school board seats. they felthe jority and our floridaing. if you have questions you have a right to ask what they are being taught. we have limited -- abstinence plus state. we have limited sex education and is not happening at younger grades. host: in new jersey, democrat caller: i'm a retired publix will teacher in the state of new jersey. i think a lot of t controversy about what librarians are that they are inappropriate or whatthere's usually a committeef teachers and librarians they get a chance to study, read the books, decide the s before it is on the list to be purchased. think a lot of the books that are being -- moms for liberty, they deal with historical books. for some reason they are opposed e. -- to tehem. we need more teachernput. parents, that would be a nightmare. parents is going to be pushing their own little agendas versus just an appropriate book that expands the child's reading vocabulary and comprehension skills. host: guest: we have a limited use form that has always existed for families w what kind of books thei

worry aboutll is going on in florida unless youyou vote for local school boards in florida. i so i listened recently to your interview with debbie millman on the design matters podcast. oh yeah. and i really enjoyed it. i actually have a connection with debbie was one of her grad students for several years ago. yes, i lived in new york, but this(q is my home here. so yeah, i loved the interview and just hearing about you and your process through creating your art and kind of had to. become one with it and feel like this is something you knew that it was good, but, you know yes, i can definitely relate to that. we didn't reallyt talk about your artwork, but you talk a little bit about it tonight and where you are now is here with your art. yeah. um full of art and some of this old art that i made in art or i've made since then. i graduated from the rhode island school of design in 2011 which already is a long time ago. putting these essays together, so one part of the process was about the words making that i didn't repeat much. i didn't publish something was clearly very dat

florida. a school board has banned a book about book bans. it's a novel called "ban this book."tudent's struggle facing school censorship. the complaint here says this book, however, actually teaches rebellion of school board authority. the censorship is part of a larger pattern. we have covered this in different ways. sometimes it's very direct. like ideas are being attacked. i want to show you some examples "a handmade's tale," "native son," i read that in school, "the diary of ann frank" has been banned. think about what that means. there are debates about when and how people should read things. it's fine and fair to have good faith debates in school and in school boards and in parent/teacher meetings about what age is the right time for what things. what we are seeing here is not that. what we are seeing is supposed concern, supposed outrage over certain material that people might disagree with. sometimes it's racial or sexual. sometimes it's flagged by a single parent. if a community is having a debate about whether should be exposed to 12-year-olds or 15-year-olds, that mi

she says she had no choice to send him to boarding school in florida to silver. the titles your site is it was a bit difficult. these are the dent times english was not taught in the rural area or the i was hesitant. but for the sake of his academic performance, i had to send him to boarding school susie to see if it is 0 for the ladies of parental expectations. play a huge role in china. back and paging 20 has lost his job as a driver. he was no longer needed the board guy is really having a hard time. he's not angry about the external factors, although he's very depressed. you know, since in that it's unbearable emotional agony, everything that happens in the world is pre determined. you should accept it as something you simply have to endure those things. homes over 20 wouldn't dream of questioning the system apart from the fact. and he's not even allowed to the 700 can on which is across the desk, with temperatures of up to 50 degrees celsius and send as far as the i can see from sue at that to the coastal city of new uh, the booth. it's one of the world's lo

school tuition free. something do something. just d' sit at home and read the national paper pay attention to the national news. worry about florida unless you o florida and you vote for local school boardsst. oh yeah. and i really enjoyed it. i actually have a connection with debbie was one of her grad students for several years ago. yes, i lived in new york, but this. so yeah, i loved the interview and■ just hear process through g your a to. become one with it and feel like this is something you knew that it was good, but, you know, getting to that space, yes, i can definitely relate to that. we didn't really talk a little bit we didn't talk about your artwork, but you talk a little bit about it tonightnd here witr art. yeah. um, so i just keep talking is full of art and some of this old art that i made in art or i've made since then. hode island school of design in 2011, which already is a long time ago. putting these essays together, so one part of the process was about the words making that i didn't repe much. i didn't publishom know, talked about something. well, do long time ago. the i think it's the first essay in history is about affirmative and it's something i1981 and its writ

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. >> i'm not a legislator, i'm not a lawyer, i'm not able to go to school board meetings in florida or texas. but i can pack boxes and i can do outreach, i can find places where these folks are needed and i can ship them. >> 30% of the books banned in certain states discuss race or racism, and they also have lgbtq+ characters or things. four giants fans are mourning the loss of another baseball great, orlando cepeda was one of the first puerto rican players to star in the major leagues and was inducted in the hall of fame in 1999. outside of the ballpark today, there is a growing memorial, a orlando cepeda statue near the second street entrance to oracle park. even nancy pelosi stopped by with flowers. >> it is a big loss for us, i guess there is a certain inevitability to is, this was a dear, precious man. he will be greatly missed and his passing on the heels of losing willie mays just makes it very sad for us. >> these two past in the past two weeks. >>> the changes that could be coming to restaurant venues after governor newsom signs a new law on surcharges. >>> and later, holiday

i am not able to go to school board meetings in florida or texas. don't have a ton of money to sway elections, but i can pack boxes and i can do outreach and i can find places where these books are needed and i can ship them. >> according to penn america, 30% of the books band in conservative leaning states include characters of color or discuss race or racism. 30% of those books also have lgbtq+ characters or themes. >>> be sure to catch our special airing today, "hope-love-pride". starting at 10:00 in the morning at pix+ 44 cable 12 and streaming on the free cbs news app and you can find all of our pride month stories on our website kpix.com. >>> coming up. firefighters are reporting progress as a battle california's largest wildfire , burning near fresno. >>> a warning from yosemite. what you need to know if you want to visit the park during the coming week. >>> we are looking at a beautiful sunrise. starting off our day on a fiery note and that is letting you know the heat >>> welcome back. is a beautiful look at the golden gate bridge with not

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i'm not able to go to school board meetings in florida or texas, but i can pack boxes and i can do outreachere these books are needed, and i can ship them. >> many of the banned books in florida and texas include lgbtq plus characters or themes. a subway station near the historic stonewall inn in new york has been renamed to honor the location's importance to the lgbtq plus rights movement. a local senator shared the unveiling of the christopher street stonewall station in the city's west village on friday afternoon. the station is adjacent to the stonewall inn, where 55 years ago, people fought back against the regular police raids at the gay bars. the growing uprising lasted several days, involving hundreds of people at the time, it was illegal for gay people to be served alcohol or to even dance with people of the same sex. san francisco botanical garden was partially closed today when a coyote made it onto the grounds. the park's website states that coyote incident forced the western half of the garden to close out of an abundance of caution. it's unclear what happened during the coyote

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florida's space coast. we'll see the astronauts on board, a man, a woman. one has an elementary school her in massachusetts, we are hoping for the best. >> dana: excellent. here we go. >> bill: it is like a scene from a movie. investigators looking for the person who tried to bribe a juror with a bag of money, $120,000 in cash, and a note promising more money if she votes to acquit. it's a federal trial it involves seven defendants charged in a pandemic fraud scheme. mike, what's up? >> a lot that goes into this case. allegedly one if not the largest pandemic fraud case in the nation. now the feds are looking for someone who they say dropped a bag of cash at a jurors house and as they go into deliberations two jurors have been dismissed from the case. the story is a mysterious woman dressed in black left 120,000 with a message that more money will be coming if the juror voted to acquit. that juror went right to police. a second juror was police after she heard about the jury tamperinging from a family member. it is alleging 70 people took 250 million aid money. seven defendants on tria

florida schools is almost every student and faculty member must be given a court up with canada. yes. to play a role in the countries progress. jenny also promised us to continue the late present, receive east boards policy desktops and you're on site solution by reaching out to non western countries. many uranium believe that the international sanctions are the main reason for the power deeply their country. but main presidential candidates are setting different solutions which candidates proposed those workers prefer. wouldn't decide that the friday. because he said that there are people in the united kingdom, which is a vote in just over a week off to a prime minister, obviously still not going on. so it's not for elections last month. opinion polls indicate the conservative party is likely to lose its majority in parliament for the 1st time in more than a decade is on all reports from london, voters are worried about the cost of living and immigration. so i will find the revised. when richie soon i called a summary election unexpectedly many in his own party, salty madness, and then as now opinion polls put. so next conservatives on average 20 points behind the opposition labor party, a defici

school boards, people, we know what's happening on school. and so i think really need to be mourning, but we have to react quickly. we can't think, oh, this is happening in floridand it can't happen here. one of things i do in my newsletter week is i put an excerpt from a banned book and what's been a real for me in doing that is seeing that there been books about d-day that have been banned. like it's absurd. the books that are being banned and people need to be aware that look at what's happening in your community, look at what's happening in your bookstore, talk to your librarians who really front line in a lot of this and also on top of that by band books. yeah, that's of the best things you can do. and there are thousands of them. it's not hard to find them. you probably have banned books in your home right now that you have to you have to push back against this because it's never going to end and going to start in school libraries. it's to go on in public libraries. it already is in some there's going to be bookstores. you know, this is something people not really seen in more than a half century. and we're right back at precipice again. so have to react m

schools. republican florida congressman serves on the workforce conveys kind enough to join us this afternoon but we thank you for coming on. >> it is great to be with you, my friends. you've been to the boardy times. i've watched your stories it is out of control. it is absolutely wreaking havoc, wreaking havoc on k-12 schools across the nation were going to hear about on tuesday. >> is look at the latest numbers this morning they are a jaw dropper presents present by the first took office we are looking upwards of almost half a million unaccompanied children across our southern border illegally. take a look at some the numbers right here. this is a fiscal year 2023 over 140,000 kids came across with the average cost per student of over 16 grand each with 2 billion for the year cost to tax payers congressman that's a tough pill for those taxpayers to swallow. cooks it is a jagged little pill for all the school districts to swallow. those here would never fund our school districts are enough. they are being eaten alive by illegals. your numbers are the same #have. but in reality we really do not know because he bided administration refuses to enforce the border. we do not even know we do no

school sy1994. he then served as an assistant principal until 2013 becoming chief operating officer at tauro college. he was appointed commissioner of education by the florida board of education on june 1, 2022. oming commissioner of education he has served with distinction in the florida legislature originally elected to the florida house of representati noon as an expert and champion of education freedoduring his tenure with the florida house of representatives he served as chairman of both the education choice and innovation committee and the pre-k appropriations subcommittee. in elected to the florida state senate where he serves as chairman of the education committee. we also welcome today paula scanlan, and abbasid or where she works -- and stand up for the right speech. she graduated from the university of pennsylvania where she studied computer science and swam for the school's prestigious ncaa division i swim team. paula is the only female athlete at the engineering school in the class athlete breaking the new england independent school league record in march, 2017 for the 400 yard freestyle relay. inspired by fellow female athletes her silence in june,