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The measures Hawai’i Gov. Josh Green sent back to state lawmakers included bills relating to issues such as the state water code, the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, special purpose digital currency licensure, certification of documents and more.
universities. the governor tells cbs news, quote, it s encouraging to see the legislature taking up this important topic. but florida s aclu says the bill would make critical thinking illegal. my initial reaction was scared. then, i was angry. reporter: this is a sophomore at miami s florida international university, one of the largest schools with over 55,000 students. as president of the pride student union, he believes that florida will do away with inclusion programs. florida governor ron desantis. we will be the first state in these united states, to wipe out dei at our public university. reporter: what does fiu without the dei initiatives look like to you? a school i would have never enrolled in. reporter: the florida legislature is debating house bill 999, which takes direct aim at dei funding.
speak to the thrust of house bill 999 and how that is also going to be unconstitutional. i just wonder and certainly the battle in and around these issues in higher ed seems to have gotten more traction in terms of pushing back than what s happening in k through 12, these textbooks, this is what s actively happening, this isn t theoretical, these are publishers changing their textbooks for reasons that remain unclear at this juncture. it seems like it s an effort to comply with a vague law that has a deeply chilling effect on any discussion about race or racism, even if it happens 60 years ago. do you have the sense that i mean, we know this one example of this publisher doing this do you have the sense that other textbook hubble shers may have been doing the same thing? well, not just publishers, i mean, we are seeing corporations eliminate their di programs even though they don t need to. we see school boards expand the