Florida education board removes DEI, sociology course from colleges: report

As a part of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' ongoing culture wars, the Sunshine State's board of education on Wednesday approved rules that "will limit the use of public funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, activities, and policies, as well as remove a sociology class from a list of required courses" from the state's colleges, The Daily Beast reports.

Per the report, the general sociology course will be replaced by "an American history course at Florida's 28 state colleges."

Regarding the new class, "Education Commission Manny Diaz said Wednesday that while the sociology course would still be available, it would no longer be a general education course, because 'within the general education code, courses may not distort significant historical events or include curriculum that teaches identity politics or theories.'"

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Florida Department of Education, according to the Beast, issued a statement saying the revised course, called, "'Introductory Survey to 1877' will provide students an 'accurate and factual account of the nation’s past, rather than exposing them to radical woke ideologies, which had become commonplace in the now replaced course.'"

In October, The New Republic reported that as a result of DeSantis' education takeover, the University of South Florida's Sarasota campus saw "27 percent of its student body drop out" marking "the lowest retention rate of first year students" in the school's history.

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