DeSantis Passes out $3,000 Bonuses to Florida Teachers for Attending Civics ‘Boot Camp’

Governor calls on students to make the United States 'a republic that we can keep'

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) presents $3,000 bonus checks to teachers who had won the Civics Seal of Excellence. Courtesy of Gov. Ron DeSantis's office

Florida’s new civics “boot camp” for teachers has graduated 4,500 from the program and has a long waiting list of others hoping to take the course, Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a press conference on March 23.

He’s prepared, he said, to ask state lawmakers to come up with more money to award $3,000 bonuses to other educators who take it.