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The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to take up an appeal by a former Palm Beach County school principal who was fired after controversial comments about the Holocaust.

Interim Superintendent Vickie Cartwright appears to be the favorite, and was the only one of 15 qualified candidates that every School Board member wanted to name as a semifinalist.

One of the semifinalists to be the next superintendent of Broward County Public Schools has been accused of covering up for a principal who refused to call the Holocaust a historical fact. The allegations are laid out in a whistleblower lawsuit filed last month.

The former principal at Spanish River High School in Boca Raton is challenging his firing at the Florida Supreme Court. William Latson was fired after he said he couldn't affirm the Holocaust happened.

Schools would face financial penalties for failing to show these history lessons meet state standards.

School leaders violated no policies in their handling of Principal William Latsons remarks, but a lack of procedures and training worsened the case.

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Don't let a Holocaust-denying school official continue to take responsibility for the education of impressionable high school students.

'Not everyone believes the Holocaust happened. You have your thoughts, but we are a public school and not all of our parents have the same beliefs,' William Latson told a mother last year.

George Bodrogi, an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor from Boynton Beach, Fl., bit into an unpitted cherry three years ago and broke one of his