The Florida State Board of Education on Wednesday announced “draconian regulations” that will end funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs within the state university system.
“The rules adopted by the Board define DEI for the first time, allowing FCS institutions to use state and federal funds to classify individuals on the basis of race or gender for the purpose of discriminatory or preferential treatment.” “We have clearly prohibited the management of written by the board In a press statement. “The Board’s action will ensure that no taxpayer funds will be used to promote DEI on Florida’s 28 state university campuses.”
“Instead of being corrupted by subversive ideologies, higher education must return to its essential foundations of academic integrity and the pursuit of knowledge,” said Manny Diaz Jr., Florida's state education commissioner. “With these actions today, we will no longer spend taxpayer dollars to support DEI and radical indoctrination that fosters social division.”
DeSantis bans state funding for diversity and inclusion programs at Florida public universities
The Florida State Board of Education on Wednesday announced “draconian regulations” that will end funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs within the state university system. (St. Petersburg)
The board also wrote that it replaced the “Principles of Sociology” course with a teaching course in American history. “The purpose is to provide students with an accurate, fact-based account of this country's past, and not to expose them to the radical woke ideology that has now become commonplace in the course it replaced. “No,” the board explained.
Florida is not the only state working to stop the expansion of DEI policies on college campuses.
At a State Board of Education meeting last month, Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters announced the elimination of all DEI programs and “drag queen”-related activities, and the funding and staffing that contributes to those programs. We introduced efforts to stop this.
FAA's diversity push includes a focus on hiring people with “severe intellectual disabilities” and “mental disabilities.”
At a State Board of Education meeting last month, Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters announced the elimination of all DEI programs and “drag queen”-related activities, and the funding and staffing that contributes to those programs. We introduced efforts to stop this. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
“What we've seen is the most extreme [Marxists] They promote a woke ideology through DEI programs,” State Superintendent Ryan Walters said in an interview on FOX News Digital, adding that such programs are harming student learning and education.
“We don't want our children to be told that they are oppressors or victims because of the color of their skin. Instead, we want to teach them that each child is uniquely created by God and that they are wonderful. “I want them to know that they can accomplish something and that it's up to them as individuals,” Walters said.
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The Florida Department of Education did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Fox News' Brianna Herlihy contributed to this report.
