No more book bans: How Florida students are pushing rightwingers out of school boards

Jimmy Glover’s youngest children were in high school when he noticed their Florida school district taking an unsettling turn. Beloved books were being pulled from shelves. Teachers were scared of being targeted.
“There was this culture of fear that was permeating throughout the district,” Glover said of Sarasota county.
By channeling anger against mask mandates in schools, the right-wing group Moms for Liberty, founded in Florida, built an outsized influence on school boards ac