{"id":324787,"date":"2026-06-30T16:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/324787\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:03:08","slug":"new-florida-law-requires-students-be-taught-cursive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/324787\/","title":{"rendered":"New Florida law requires students be taught cursive"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA new Florida law will require students to be taught to write in cursive between grades 3 and 5 starting this upcoming academic year.The law goes into effect on July 1, 2026.This law is specific to public schools, saying students must be provided with specified cursive writing instruction.Students must demonstrate proficiency in cursive writing by the end of 5th grade.”Proficiency” is defined as the ability to write upper and lowercase letters in cursive, write full words, full sentences and they must be legible with proper spacing and alignment. Students must also be able to read cursive writing.The proposed bill aimed to support literacy development, including writing essays and other assignments in cursive in accordance with state academic standards.The law was filed on Oct. 14, 2025, and was approved by Gov. Ron DeSantis on April 20, 2026.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

A new Florida law<\/a> will require students to be taught to write in cursive between grades 3 and 5 starting this upcoming academic year.<\/p>\n

The law goes into effect on July 1, 2026.<\/p>\n

This law is specific to public schools, saying students must be provided with specified cursive writing instruction.<\/p>\n

Students must demonstrate proficiency in cursive writing by the end of 5th grade.<\/p>\n

“Proficiency” is defined as the ability to write upper and lowercase letters in cursive, write full words, full sentences and they must be legible with proper spacing and alignment. Students must also be able to read cursive writing.<\/p>\n

The proposed bill aimed to support literacy development, including writing essays and other assignments in cursive in accordance with state academic standards.<\/p>\n

The law was filed on Oct. 14, 2025, and was approved by Gov. Ron DeSantis on April 20, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Florida law will require students to be taught to write in cursive between grades 3 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-324787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324787","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=324787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}