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Districts across Tampa Bay are waiting for publishers to navigate the appeals process so they can place book orders as soon as possible.

The textbooks need to be ordered as soon as possible to have them in time for teacher training, said one Manatee County official.

House Higher Education Appropriations Chairman Rene Plasencia, R-Orlando, told reporters the stipend was “subsidizing textbook companies.”

A new law allows any Florida resident to question what's being taught in the state's public schools.A handful of complaints have been filed in school…