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DEI, school choice: The education issues fought over at the state level this year
- Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed Senate Bill 1, known as the Ohio Higher Education Act, into law on March 28 to ban DEI programs in state colleges effective June 27.
- Supporters designed SB 1 to promote intellectual diversity by eliminating identity-based programs and requiring faculty to avoid indoctrination while fostering free thought.
- Opponents including educator Kate Durso and local volunteers have rallied to oppose SB 1, seeking a referendum by collecting 250,000 signatures from at least 44 counties this fall.
- Durso explained that SB 1 aims to discontinue initiatives and support focused on identity groups and characterized the bill as a strategy that undermines public higher education in Ohio.
- The law’s passage sparked ongoing debate and activism, implying potential impacts on diversity initiatives and public higher education funding in Ohio.
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VBCPS board votes to adopt changes to 2025 & 2030 strategic frameworks
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — Some of the changes that will be made in Virginia Beach City Public Schools in the wake of a recent decision to suspend diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the school division are coming to light. Virginia Beach board votes to keep suspension of DEI in place The Virginia Beach School Board, by a 6-5 vote, adopted changes Tuesday to the strategic framework for Compass to 2025 and Compass to 2030. “The…
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Daily PressVirginia Beach School Board votes to officially end DEI initiatives
VIRGINIA BEACH — School board members in Virginia Beach voted 6-5 to officially end diversity and inclusion initiatives in the school district. Specifically, the board has spent several meetings discussing updates to Policy 5-4, formerly known as “Educational Equity.” The policy had previously included several sections and references to “diversity,” “inclusion,” “implicit bias,” “cross-cultural” and “equity.” All of those references are now remo…
Education advocates want voters to decide on DEI ban in Ohio colleges, universities
Education advocates were out in the Cincinnati streets Monday trying to push back against Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), which would ban diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in state colleges and universities. "It is a way to erode public higher education in Ohio. So the bill is designed to eliminate programs and services that are based on identity groups," said Kate Durso, the southwest regional captain advocating against SB 1.SB 1, or the "Ohio Higher…
Gov. Laura Kelly warns of undercutting Kansas schools, judicial independence, budget stability - Butler County Times-Gazette
By Tim CarpenterKansas Reflector TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly wants the Republican-dominated legislative committee drafting a new state funding formula for K-12 public school districts to work on behalf of all Kansans by resisting pressure to funnel tax dollars into private schools. Kelly, a Democrat nearing the home stretch of her second term as governor, said the existing formula was the product of years of work by the legislative and executive b…
Rapidly expanding school voucher programs pinch state budgets • New Hampshire Bulletin
An elementary school math teacher instructs a fifth grade class at a private school in Wheeling, W.Va. Costs are skyrocketing as states rapidly expand school voucher programs, which divert public funds to pay for private school tuition. (Photo by Gene J. Puskar/The Associated Press)In submitting her updated budget proposal in March, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs lamented the rising costs of the state’s school vouchers program that directs public doll…
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