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FL may require teaching history of communism in kindergarten
WPBF 25 News
"I think it should be about the security of our nation and of people who live here, so I think that the politicians need to get together and fix this. Both sides are the problem,” said State Rep. Katherine Waldron (D- Palm Beach County).The idea that you're just gonna teach communism is a little bit weird to me," Rep. Katherine Waldron said.
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FL may require teaching history of communism in kindergarten
CBS 12 News
The bill would require public schools to teach students as young as kindergarten about a controversial subject. ... "How do you teach a political system to a kindergartner who is just starting to learn to read and learn about colors and things like that? It doesn't make any sense. You've got capitalism, fascism, socialism. The idea that you're just gonna teach communism is a little bit weird to me," Rep. Katherine Waldron said.
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Florida lawmakers move to bar kids from social media in latest statehouse push
Washington Post
Florida’s House of Representatives has greenlit what could be one of the nation’s strictest laws aimed at protecting children online, passing a bill that would bar anyone 16 and younger from using social media. "It’s not a cure-all … but it will help and it will be a start,” said Rep. Katherine Waldron (D), one of the bill’s sponsors.
Florida Lawmakers Push to Restrict Corporal Punishment in Schools
Yahoo! News
Short of banning school officials from paddling or hitting kids, the proposal from Palm Beach Democrat Rep. Katherine Waldron would require schools that use corporal punishment to get permission to do so from parents at the beginning of the school year. Principals would be barred from hitting kids whose parents don’t opt in or fill out a permission slip. The bill gained unanimous approval in its first committee stop. The identical Senate version has not been heard.
Lori Berman, Katherine Waldron file ‘property rights’ bills to protect residents from stray bullets
Florida Politics
Residents across the state have complained for years about errantly fired bullets from home-based shooting ranges crossing over into their property and striking their belongings, pets or, in numerous unfortunate cases, them or their family members. Rep. Katherine Waldron, who said Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw supports her bill, believes the intent of the law as it’s written now wasn’t to enable Florida’s rural residents to recklessly fire their weapons.
Palm Beach County sends $1 million, 100 tons of goods to Maria victims
Palm Beach Post
Palm Beach County Cares has delivered more than 200,000 pounds of goods to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, which were both devastated by Hurricane Maria in September. READ MORE>>>
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Rep. Katherine Waldron's Presentation on HB-121, this act relates to specialty license plates and directs the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a "Project Addiction: Reversing the Stigma" license plate.
"Representative Waldron was so fantastic, she's super funny, has a really balanced political view..."
