The Florida State Board of Education has put “strict regulations” in place to prohibit its 28 public colleges from using taxpayer funds to conduct programs categorizing individuals based on sex or race for “differential or preferential treatment.”
Florida’s State Board of Education has moved to ensure taxpayer funds will no longer support
“Higher education must return to its essential foundations of academic integrity and the pursuit of knowledge instead of being corrupted by destructive ideologies,” said Florida Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz Jr. on Wednesday. “These actions today ensure that we will not spend taxpayers’ money supporting DEI and radical indoctrination that promotes division in our society.”
According to WPTV, the nonprofit Equality Florida said they’re not surprised at the passage of the education department’s new rule, describing the board as “a rubber stamp for Governor Ron DeSantis’ agenda of censorship and surveillance.”
“This is a brazenly political attack on Florida’s colleges, and all minorities in Florida, and is one more way state agencies have been weaponized to support Governor DeSantis’ failing political ambitions,” said Equality Florida, WPTV reported. “Shame on the State Board of Education for passing rules that weaken and threaten Florida’s colleges in service to one more manufactured culture war.”
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