He's essentially taken the institution of education at both the K-12 level and higher education and remade it in his own image. He has gotten more than any governor in the country, and certainly any governor in Florida history, very, very involved in school board races. We have seen curriculum embedded for very, very young children, classroom materials about sexuality and woke gender ideology," she says.
NBC’s Matt Dixon explains how Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to Make America Florida. Vox’s Andrew Prokop spells out how the governor’s brain works. Please clap.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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