The Stop Woke Act is presently being contested in court, but DeSantis is optimistic it will be upheld. Florida’s Gov. DeSantis is declaring financial war on the ‘woke’ universities in state.
On January 31, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis laid down the gauntlet on higher education reform, pledging to abolish all funding for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and Critical Race Theory (CRT) across the state.
DeSantis believes that public institutions should not be involved in the practice of using government funds to grant degrees in "zombie" disciplines, but rather should promote academic brilliance and truth, and empower students to think for themselves.
“Our institutions will be graduating students with degrees that will actually be useful,” he said. “We will be eliminating all DEI and CRT bureaucracies in Florida. It will wither on the vine.”
DeSantis proposed a number of legislative initiatives to rid institutions of political ideology, including permitting university...