It’s an understatement to say that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has gotten results after making it a top priority in his second term to continue to do the hard work of prying the prickly tentacles of wokeness off of public school systems and state-funded universities and colleges, all of which have become breeding grounds for leftist indoctrination.
Not long after his inauguration speech, where he reiterated a point he’s made before about how Florida is “where woke goes to die,” DeSantis promptly got to work telling the state’s public universities and colleges to provide details on expenditures “related to DEI programs and Critical Race Theory.”
Right after that, he transformed the Board of Trustees for New College of Florida to include three conservatives, including prominent CRT opponent Christopher Rufo.
Just days after DeSantis requested the expenditure info, the ACLU filed a motion to block the move because DeSantis violated a federal judge’s previously-issued preliminary injunction against parts of the Stop WOKE Act, but the ACLU’s motion was denied.
Around this same time, the DeSantis administration wrote a letter to the College Board (an organization that “helps more than seven million students prepare for a successful transition to college” through the SAT and AP program), alerting them that they would not be given state approval for a “pilot version of an AP African-American Studies (APAAS) course” that, according to the Florida Department of Education, “is inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.”
Two weeks later, the College Board announced it would be revising the program. And when they released their official curriculum on Wednesday, we learned that they’d dropped CRT and Black Lives Matter-related subject matter from the course.
On Tuesday, DeSantis laid out a sweeping plan for higher education reform that he vowed would, if approved by the state legislature, “[prohibit] higher education institutions from using any funding, regardless of source, to support DEI, CRT, and other discriminatory initiatives.”
Naturally, the left went nuts, claiming – ironically – that higher ed institutions should not be subjected to the supposed ideological whims of partisan public officials:
The pushback to the leftist freakout was at times hilarious and others spot-on:
Endorsed.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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