Ron DeSantis sued two education publishers, and recently lost when a judge tossed the case

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his administration have clashed with K-12 publishers several times in recent years, accusing them of injecting woke ideology into classrooms and rejecting dozens of math and social studies textbooks. The latest incident involves a high-profile lawsuit that Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier — a DeSantis appointee — filed against two of the biggest education publishers in the country. At a press conference last year, DeSantis and Uthmeier accused McGraw Hill and Savvas Learning Company of offering some school districts lower prices for instructional materials while charging others more, alleging the practice cost Florida taxpayers millions of dollars and violated the state's textbook-pricing law. “We are on the prowl to recoup this money,” DeSantis said. Florida's case unraveled recently when a circuit judge dismissed the lawsuit, finding that the textbook-pricing law cited by DeSantis and Uthmeier did not apply the way they claimed. The ruling reinforces a longstanding reality of the K-12 marketplace: Publishers doing business in Florida can continue negotiating district-by-district pricing agreements without automatically triggering the same discounts for every school system in the state. However, the circuit court's decision may not be the final word. Florida could appeal, or lawmakers could move to expand the state's "best pricing" textbook law to cover district-by-district pricing agreements — potentially reshaping the rules governing textbook procurement in one of the nation's largest K-12 markets. Full story: https://marketbrief.edweek.org/regulation-policy/judge-dismisses-florida-textbook-pricing-lawsuit-against-mcgraw-hill-savvas/2026/06 submitted by /u/ATXJames357 [link] [comments]