Kentucky House Moves to Obliterate College DEI Efforts [Video]

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Post date March 21, 2024

Florida isn’t the only battleground in the war on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. In Kentucky, lawmakers just moved one giant step closer to destroying DEI efforts on college campuses throughout the Bluegrass State.

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On Friday, the GOP-controlled Kentucky House passed a bill making it illegal to spend money on DEI offices, DEI training or DEI employees. The bill also bans scholarships specifically awarded to minority students and prohibits the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education from approving degrees with “discriminatory concepts” — opening the door for crackdowns of teaching about race, gender, and sexuality.

“This bill will claw back all the progress we’ve made here in the Commonwealth,” Felicia Newman of the Louisville Urban League told Spectrum News. “It will render students less competitive in a global economy, and they’ll be less educated than their peers.”

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