{"id":58767,"date":"2023-09-26T13:47:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T17:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=58767"},"modified":"2023-09-26T13:47:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T17:47:47","slug":"did-you-know-182","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2023\/09\/did-you-know-182\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Paul Waldmiller<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/September-26-2023-Did-You-Know-PHOTO.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58768\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Did you know that Governor DeSantis recently suspended some school scholarships?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Friday, Governor Ron DeSantis directed our Florida Department of Education [DoE] to suspend four schools from the state\u2019s school-choice scholarship program due to alleged \u201cdirect ties to the Chinese Communist Party.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a news release from the governor\u2019s office, \u201cThrough a thorough investigation, [the Florida DoE] has determined that Lower and Upper Sagemont Preparatory Schools in Weston, Parke House Academy in Winter Park, and Park Maitland School in Winter Park have direct ties to the CCP and their connections constitute and imminent threat to the health, safety, and welfare of these school\u2019s students and the public.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021, DeSantis signed bills, HB 1523 ands HB 7017 into law that were designed to thwart foreign meddling in Florida\u2019s government and education system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, in 2022, DeSantis signed a bill to create a \u201cVictims of Communism Day\u201d each year on November 7<sup>th<\/sup>. Florida public-school teachers are required to spend at least 45 minutes teaching students regarding the sufferings of those who have lived under Communist and totalitarian governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Waldmiller Did you know that Governor DeSantis recently suspended some school scholarships? Last Friday, Governor Ron DeSantis directed our Florida Department of Education [DoE] to suspend four schools&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":58768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[294],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58770,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58767\/revisions\/58770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}