- Hernandez worked for over 10 years teaching children with special needs.
- She was the school district’s Teacher of the Year in 2010.
- Selection of Hernandez suggests Crist leaning into fight with GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis over education.
- DeSantis has opposed school curriculum he and parents have considered un-American or un-patriotic.
- Governor also differed with teachers union on COVID-19 masks in classrooms,. shutterings schools amid pandemic.
