- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law requiring daily moments of silence in schools.
- The law is expected to go into effect next school year.
- Teachers can't make "suggestions as to the nature of any reflection" students may engage in.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a new law this week that requires schools to hold daily moments of silence for students.
"It's important to be able to provide each student the ability every day to reflect and be able to pray as they see fit," DeSantis said before signing the bill, CNN reported.
Though the law doesn't mandate prayer, DeSantis used religious terms at the bill's signing, railing against "the idea that you can just push God out of every institution and be successful."
"I'm sorry, our Founding Fathers did not believe that," DeSantis added.
The law says teachers are barred "from making suggestions as to the nature of any reflection that a student may engage in during the moment of silence."
The bill was signed into law on Monday and is expected to go into effect next school year.