'It's had a chilling effect': Florida teachers anxious about 'don't say gay' bill

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : According to EducationData.org, Florida ranks 42nd in the US for public education spending and single pupil spending falls thousands of dollars below the national average.
52% : "All of these real huge concerns in public education is what we should be talking about in the news and the governor should be talking about," added McCracken.
44% :The bill, called the parental educational rights bill by its Republican authors, prohibits classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third grade, but also vaguely prohibits instruction deemed age inappropriate in the public school system.
38% : It's all very frustrating because we do have massive problems in public education and this isn't one of them."
24% : He argued rather than have to worry about politically motivated culture war attacks on teachers and public education, that teachers would like to see issues such as staffing shortages, low pay, and inadequate funding of public education be addressed.

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