TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida State Board of Education on Wednesday adopted nearly a dozen administrative rules to ensure they match laws approved by the Florida Legislature earlier this year, including one that specifies educators’ teaching certificates can be revoked or suspended for violating the law that prohibits classroom instruction to students in kindergarten through third grade on sexual orientation or gender identity.

The other rules changes:

• Increase the transparency of elementary school library materials and reading lists, giving parents the ability to search the materials a student in an elementary school grade level (kindergarten through fifth grade) has access to, based upon title or author and depending upon the type of material
• Require parental notification for any student bathrooms, locker rooms and dressing rooms that are not separated by biological sex at birth
• Establish a special magistrate for parents to address unresolved student welfare complaints at public charter schools
• Prevent the unauthorized sharing of students’ personal identifying information with third-party vendors and others, excluding the Department of Education and its contractors and subcontractors.
• Gives direction concerning retention and transfer of threat assessment records of students, allowing assessments determined to be transient or substantive to be maintained in a student’s file as long as determined useful by a threat assessment team

“Parents have a right to be involved in their child’s education and informed regarding what is taking place at their child’s school, and moreover, students have a right to come to a safe learning environment every day,” Florida Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz, Jr. said. “I applaud the State Board of Education for upholding parental rights and continuing to promote the health, safety and welfare of the students in our schools.”