Florida’s new civics “boot camp” for teachers has graduated 4,500 from the program and has a long waiting list of others hoping to take the course, Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a press conference on March 23.
He’s prepared, he said, to ask state lawmakers to come up with more money to award $3,000 bonuses to other educators who take it.
The goal is to get “American civics back front-and-center in our school system,” DeSantis told his audience at Ridgeview High School in Orange Park near the state’s northeast corner.
Depending on their path in life, students won’t necessarily find use for every course they take in high school, the Republican governor said….