Florida Ban on ‘Woke’ College Lessons Meets Receptive 11th Cir.

A Florida law’s limits on teaching critical race theory and similar concepts in public universities elicited a warmer reception from federal appellate judges than the matching restrictions on private workplace training that the Eleventh Circuit struck down in March.

A three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit heard oral arguments Friday over a challenge to the university-related parts of Florida’s 2022 “Stop WOKE Act” in a Miami courtroom.

The law, championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), banned school and workplace lessons that espoused any of eight race and gender concepts associated with anti-racism, white privilege, ...