Ron DeSantis signed SB 266, which aims to end the teaching of courses known as DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion). “If you look at the way this has been implemented across the country, DEI is seen as standing up for discrimination, exclusion, indoctrination, and that has no place in our public institutions,” he said.
Studies on racial diversity, equity and inclusion at Florida’s public universities could be eliminated, after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, signed a bill that cuts funding for them.
DeSantis signed SB 266, which aims to end the teaching of courses known as DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion), in addition to two others also on education, at the New College of Florida, in Sarasota, university where a new conservative-leaning board of directors was formed earlier this year.
“If you look at the way this has been implemented across the country, DEI is seen as standing up for discrimination, exclusion, indoctrination, and that has no place in our public institutions,” said DeSantis, who is expected at any make official his intention to run for the US Presidency as a candidate of the Republican Party. “In reality, DEI tries to impose orthodoxy and this has been used as a facade to promote an ideological agenda, and that is wrong,” the governor deepened. at a press conference at the university, in which the new board, elected with the concurrence of DeSantis, eliminated these courses and fired the dean of these programs.
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The rule stipulates that state universities review any teaching subject “based on theories that racism, sexism, and systemic privilege are inherent in the institutions of the United States and were created to maintain social, political, and economic inequalities.”
Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried said today that the rules are the first steps toward “destroying academic freedom and free thought, just as the dictators of oppressive regimes around the world have done for generations”, and that this is causing the flight out of the state of students, academics and administrators.
“Baning ideas you don’t like, rewriting history to leave out the pieces that don’t fit your distorted worldview, intimidating educators and dismantling academic careers and banning anything DEI — these are all steps we’ve seen taken in places like Cuba, Venezuela and Russia,” Fried said in a statement.
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