Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday took aim a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs at Florida’s public universities, saying they are a drain on resources and impose an agenda on people.
– Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday took aim a diversity, equity and inclusion programs at Florida’s public universities, saying they are a drain on resources and impose an agenda on people.
Speaking at State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota, DeSantis started by saying he wants to make sure that everybody that goes through a Florida university has to take “certain core course requirements, that’s really focused on giving them the foundation so that they can think for themselves and the core curriculum must be grounded in actual history, the actual philosophy that has shaped Western civilization,” though he wasn’t specific.
“We are also going to eliminate all DEI and [critical race theory] bureaucracies in the state of Florida, no funding and that will wither on the vine,” DeSantis went on to say. “And I think that that’s very important because it really serves as an ideological filter, a political filter.” Earlier this month his administration asked state colleges and universities for information about resources they are putting into activities related to DEI and critical race theory. A
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