Wouldn’t this cover almost all colleges and universities? It’s a tall order.
Campus Reform reports:
‘LEFTIST INDOCTRINATION’: Texas lawmaker promises to cut off taxpayer dollars from schools promoting woke programs
A legislator in the Texas state legislature has promised to take measures against schools that offer programs promoting “leftist indoctrination.”
Republican State Rep. Brian Harrison targeted Texas’s “Promise Plus” program, which grants certain students exemptions from paying tuition when they attend any of the University of Texas’s campuses, The Christian Post reported.
Harrison and his colleagues in the legislature wrote a letter on Nov. 21 to the University of Texas leadership that he shared on X. The legislators stated they were “extremely troubled” by the University of Texas’s decision to broaden eligibility for the Promise Plus program by accepting applicants “whose families earn up to $100,000.”
The letter asked if the expansion “will apply to students who are enrolled in the ‘LGBTQ/Sexualities Studies’ Minor,” and if it will force “a working class Texan, who did not attend a college or university and is making $45k/year,” to “ [subsidize] the child of a parent who makes $100k/year?”
In his X statement, Harrison wrote that “nothing is free,” and called the expansion an “outrageous abuse of power.” He continued, calling on the Texas legislature to “stop this Nancy Pelosi-esque, regressive, welfare-for-the-rich program that abuses working class Texans by forcing them to fund ‘free’ college for ‘LGBTQ Studies’ students.”
Harrison told The Christian Post: “I am sick of my constituents’ tax dollars being weaponized against them, their values, and their children. . . . Public universities are for education not leftist indoctrination. If you want to study [lesbian, gay and bisexual] studies, fine, but do it with your own money.”
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It seems to me that this policy may be coming close to abridging the free speech rights of the professors. I think it would make more sense for the state to cut back or outright withhold funding across the board, If the University of Texas wants to expand eligibility for the program then the university needs to dig into its own pockets to cover that cost.
PS. I should have been clearer. I believe any withholding or curtailing of funds should not be based on what is being taught but on the university system using its own monies for programs that do not benefit the taxpayers of Texas as a whole. It might make sense for taxpayers to support the schooling of civil engineers it makes no sense for them to shore up the education of queer theorists.
He has to be very careful not to violate the first amendment. What he wants, or something similar, can probably be done, but not in the way he seems to think it can.
A law making it clear you do leftist indoctrination you lose cash, and possibly certification is perfectly reasonable.
If the U.S. Federal Government has a right to regulate education (it routinely does) the state government most definitely can to.
Government employees do not enjoy freedom of speech in the classroom or any time they are working for the government. Employees in the private sector do not have freedom of speech while on the job. As we have seen, no one is free from the consequences of their actions, either on the job or off.
States can absolutely control what is taught in schools that get state funds whether it is anti-semitism, critical race theory, the theory of evolution, modern math, or whatever. Teachers are hired for a purpose, and the state can dictate what that purpose is.
Not entirely true. Even employees in the public sector have free speech rights at work – within certain boundaries. Within gov’t offices, there are restrictions based on civil rights categories, and, of course, actually doing your job properly.
Make the argument about religion. Because that’s what they’re doing: indoctrinating Progressivism. (Yes, it’s a religion.)
Stop all state money for any “studies”, they are a waste and serve no purpose