{"id":665,"date":"2011-08-10T16:31:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T20:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=665"},"modified":"2011-08-15T17:47:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T21:47:03","slug":"new-textbook-selection-process-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/08\/10\/new-textbook-selection-process-challenged\/","title":{"rendered":"New Textbook Selection Process Challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Boca Raton group said they will sue Gov. Rick Scott over how the state chooses its textbooks, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/education\/k12\/new-lawsuit-against-gov-rick-scott-is-over-new-textbook-adoption-law\/1185253\">St. Petersburg Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The group says the new textbook adoption process does not provide for  enough time, readers or transparency relating to decisions on  appropriate subject materials in schools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is not possible for  two people to review all the textbooks in Florida within a 4-month  period of time,&#8221; the lawsuit reads, &#8220;and thus Senate Bill 2120 renders  it impossible for the Defendants to provide high-quality education to  all children in Florida as required by law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is at least the  eighth lawsuit naming Scott as a defendant since he took office this  year. He signed SB 2120, a conforming education budget bill, into law on  May 26. Citizens for National Security wants the law repealed and  blames Scott for not vetoing the textbook provision.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Boca Raton group said they will sue Gov. Rick Scott over how the state chooses its textbooks, according to the St. Petersburg Times. &#8220;The group says the new textbook adoption process does not provide for enough time, readers or transparency relating to decisions on appropriate subject materials in schools. &#8220;It is not possible for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1047,1027,1048],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}