A federal judge Friday ruled a university professor, two teachers and a student can move forward with a challenge to a new state law that restricts the way race-related concepts can be taught in classrooms and workplace training. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker rejected parts of a request by the state to dismiss a constitutional challenge to the law — dubbed by Gov. Ron DeSantis as the “Stop WOKE Act.”
A federal judge Friday ruled a university professor, two teachers and a student can move forward with a challenge to a new state law that restricts the way race-related concepts can be taught in classrooms and workplace training. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker rejected parts of a request by the state to dismiss a constitutional challenge to the law — dubbed by Gov. Ron DeSantis as the “Stop WOKE Act.”