House Republicans Go After Anti-Israel Protests With ‘No Tax Dollars for College Encampments Act’
“would prevent the disgraceful mob riots we saw overtake campuses across the country including Columbia University and make sure school leaders are enforcing policies against hostile campus takeovers”
Even if this doesn’t pass, it sends an important reminder to schools.
The College Fix reports:
House Republicans introduce ‘No Tax Dollars for College Encampments Act’
In the wake of a tumultuous spring semester during which anti-Israel campus protests overtook dozens of universities and resulted in thousands of arrests and police interventions, top House Republicans have introduced a bill that seeks to better hold administrators accountable for such mayhem.
The “No Tax Dollars for College Encampments Act” was introduced July 1 by Republicans Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana and Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York. The legislation would require universities to publicly disclose their protest response policies to receive federal accreditation.
“I am committed to ridding universities of the antisemitic rot corrupting our students and making campuses dangerous and unwelcoming to our Jewish communities,” Stefanik said in a news release.
“This legislation would prevent the disgraceful mob riots we saw overtake campuses across the country including Columbia University and make sure school leaders are enforcing policies against hostile campus takeovers,” the congresswoman stated.
The bill, which seeks to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965, would also require universities “to adhere to their own procedures and reporting requirements when responding to civil unrest,” according to a news release from Bank’s office.
If approved, universities would be required to submit annual reports to the Department of Education reporting incidents of civil unrest and the measures campus leaders took in response.
The bill’s purpose is to enhance transparency, improve safety, and ensure accountability on campuses, the Republicans said in their news releases.
Six other House Republicans and multiple policy organizations, including Heritage Action and Parents Defending Education Action, have backed the bill.
“[W]e cannot sit idle while these college administrations allow these illegal encampments to continue,” Parents Defending Education Action states in a news release.
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and why does the small gov gop think that the public should fund other peoples children and then not even have a say so on what they are doing with that money etc????
fund your own children and/or get donations to do so
the dems say they love you
get them to fund yourrrrr children
and then you can teach them alll the trans dei garbage you want
I would like an explanation for that to.
More importantly I would like to see a change. This idea that we could somehow surrender education or that we should surrender education to be purely the domain of the left and not suffer horrible consequences has got to die.
we know there is always going to be a radical element
so the pro free market pro people approach is to allow each individual to support their own cause and get together with others who think the same
but allowing that to be forced upon americans is how socialism weaves its way in as somehow innocent/benign and the gop went along
it can be changed it took 60 years to get roe sent back to the states like it should have been in the first place
education is also a local issue
but the racist scream racism and the good people freeze up
We complain about the ridiculous cost of a college education — I refuse to call it “higher education”, considering the trash it has collected, in clients as well as in ideologies — but there can be no doubt that the federal student loan program has facilitated that gravy train. This should be one of the many priorities for abolishing by the Trump administration. Why subsidize the enemy, anyway?