FILE - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivers remarks during a press conference at the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District headquarters at Walt Disney World, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. The University of Florida is eliminating its chief diversity officer position, Friday, March 1, scrapping the program’s staff jobs and halting any contracts involving the subject because of a new law passed last year by the Republican-dominated state Legislature. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)
FILE - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis answers questions from the media, March 7, 2023, at the state Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. Students and teachers will be able to speak freely about sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida classrooms under a settlement reached Monday, March 11, 2024 between Florida education officials and civil rights attorneys who had challenged a state law which critics dubbed “Don't Say Gay.” (AP Photo/Phil Sears, File)