What the DeSantis agenda means for higher education in Florida

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🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Florida law now bans public colleges from offering general ed classes that “distort significant events” or “teach identity politics." What happens when the government tells colleges what they can and can’t teach?

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0:00.0	Get up and add it.
0:01.3	That's my mother used to say.
0:03.5	Get moving.
0:05.0	Get your skate song.
0:06.9	Get your hair done in the race run.
0:09.7	Get behind the wheel.
0:12.3	Get picking up.
0:14.7	And dropping off.
0:17.0	Get busy.
0:18.0	Like the next laugh, get to live.
0:19.5	Get deliveries done.
0:21.4	And get home to see mom.
0:24.2	Whatever the mission, enterprise rent a car
0:26.8	helps over 100,000 every day.
0:30.4	What this does is reorient our universities
0:34.8	back to their traditional mission.
0:36.8	And part of that traditional mission
0:38.4	is to treat people as individuals, not
0:40.9	to try to divvy them up based on any type of superficial
0:44.2	characteristics.
0:45.7	Florida Senate Bill 266, signed into law this month
0:50.0	by Governor Ron DeSantis, ushers in significant changes
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