LGBTQ advocates prepare to fight possible "Don't Say Gay" expansion

What they're saying: "We have every reason to believe that will just be one of the legislative fights we could be staring down in Florida's session in March," Stratton Pollitzer, deputy director of St. Petersburg-based LGBTQ rights group Equality Florida, tells Axios.

• Equality Florida is stepping up its fight against anti-LGBTQ laws this year, in part by investing in more advertisements.
• "We're going to need hundreds of thousands of people showing up in our school board meetings, in the Capitol during session and at every one of these hearings. We'll keep chipping away at them," Pollitzer said.

Catch up fast: Months after the law went into effect last July, schools started making changes to avoid violating the legislation amid increased scrutiny.

• Miami-Dade County's school board voted not to recognize LGBTQ History Month in October.

• Later that fall, the state Board of Education added new rules that require school districts to notify parents about bathroom policies.
• In December, Hillsborough County was among 10 districts scrutinized by the board for their LGBTQ guidelines.

What we're watching: Next Wednesday, the Board of Education will vote on a proposed rule that would take away an educator's teaching certificate if they don't notify parents of any changes to their child's "health or wellbeing," which includes a student using a different name as well as pronouns and bathrooms.

• Meanwhile, a federal lawsuit against the Parental Rights in Education Act was refiled in November and remains pending.