'Prohibiting ideas in the name of freedom is not freedom at all,' said one critic of a bill that would outlaw teaching systemic racism in college courses. 'It is censorship.'
Civil liberties defenders on Wednesday decried yet another bill passed by Florida's GOP-controlled Legislature attacking academic freedom, while calling on Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to take the unlikely step of vetoing the measure. S.B. 266 would require Florida's Board of Education and its state university system's board of governors to establish faculty committees tasked with reviewing and, if deemed necessary, rejecting or adjusting all general education courses.
Legal Defense Fund senior counsel Charles McLaurin warned that 'if enacted, the S.B. 266 bill in Florida will threaten the quality of higher education inside and outside the classroom.''All educators and students are entitled to participate and contribute to a fair and high-quality educational experience that is grounded in basic values of accuracy, equity, and truth,' he added.
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