{"id":253099,"date":"2026-04-30T22:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253099\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:31:09","slug":"education-bills-sent-to-desantis-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253099\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Bills Sent to DeSantis \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img width=\"810\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FDOE_Building2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>                                            <\/p>\n<p>By: The News Service of Florida<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Legislature sent four education bills to Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019 desk Thursday, part of a batch of 16 measures he received.<\/p>\n<p>One bill (HB 453) allows for two years of marching band to satisfy physical education and performing arts requirements for a high school diploma and allows students with disabilities who participate in Special Olympics also satisfy the physical education requirement for a diploma.<\/p>\n<p>The second measure (HB 1073) creates the District School Board Members\u2019 Bill of Rights, which gives members the ability to publicly comment on district school board business, except for matters prohibited by law.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0A third bill (HB 1201) revises educational programs concerning\u00a0epilepsy\u00a0and revises requirements for a student\u2019s individualized seizure action plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fourth measure (HB 1279) makes several changes to Pre-K through college level education rules. Notably, it allows public postsecondary institutions to seek accreditation from accreditors beyond \u201cregional\u201d accreditors, and strikes references to the American Bar Association in statutes relating to the Florida A&amp;M University College of Law and the Florida International University College of Law.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777588269_420_2feb62a33afabb2a91d79ebaef0ef1d0e6240306aa2d5bd82b9d514a59736a98.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By: The News Service of Florida The Florida Legislature sent four education bills to Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019 desk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-253099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}