Ron DeSantis upended education in Florida. He’s coming for your state next.

Ron DeSantis upended education in Florida. He’s coming for your state next.

Ron DeSantis paved his political brand — and wound his way into conservative hearts — through Florida’s classrooms.

Get ready to hear about it on the campaign trail. A lot.

The presidential hopeful isn’t the first Republican governor to embrace “parental rights” or limit how race and gender are discussed in schools. But DeSantis has built a long legislative record as an “education governor” amid battles with Democrats and civil rights groups that endeared him to rank-and-file GOP voters. Now he’s planning to pitch that record across the nation in a bid to become the new leader of the Republican Party.

Since becoming governor in 2019, DeSantis earned the nickname among conservatives by codify...

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