Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Tuesday that he plans to ask the state legislature to revoke funds from public colleges in the state if they offer lessons on diversity, equity and inclusion
DeSantis’s plan would revoke funding from institutions of higher learning in the state if they offer classes on diversity, equity or inclusion — a broad definition that could have a vast impact on colleges’ academics.
“I am now disappointed to learn that a major section on the end of this curriculum was removed from an earlier version,”Historian Barbara Ransby condemned DeSantis’s rejection of intersectional Black history lessons in an op-ed for“With a nod toward his homophobic base and illustrating his own ignorance, DeSantis asked the question, how could queer theory be relevant to African American studies?”
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