Gov. Gavin Newsom Attacks DeSantis for ‘Assault’ on Education and Free Speech in Florida

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NEWSOM: "But I do believe education is under assault in ways that I've never experienced in my lifetime. (...) ....that I think we're living in as it relates to the assault of our freedom of expression, speech. (...) The meme of the moment — well, maybe it's no longer the moment, it's something called Critical Race Theory, there's this guy Tucker, 'I'm trying to just understand what it is.' Of course, if it's happening — it has to be happening in California, but I’m the governor of California, I don’t know what it is. Must be occurring on the basis of how everybody’s jumping over themselves to ban it. But the real meme of the moment seems to be no longer CRT, it seems to be something called Social-Emotional Learning. (...) God forbid. Coincidental, 42 children's books banned, 42 books specifically, by, forgive me, the Board of Education in Florida, because it included Social-Emotional Learning."