Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. at a news conference alongside Gov. Ron DeSantis in Miami in May.Heather Felton, 48, who resigned from her job teaching English at South East High School in Manatee County at the end of the last school year, said she removed a little less than half of the 700 books she had in her classroom ahead of a planned visit by a media specialist. She said she had a panic attack the day the media specialist pored through her classroom library.
"I tell the students about all the rules that have been passed," the teacher said, adding that they have had to modify their lessons. Consuegra said a student once questioned why he taught a lesson about Black chemists from a science news article outside of Black History Month.