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At heart, the battle against critical race theory is a fight against entrenched bureaucracies that have used public institutions to promote their own racialist ideology.  “This is an elite-driven phenomenon being driven by bureaucratic elites, elites in universities, and elites in corporate America, and they’re trying to shove it down the throats of the American people,” DeSantis said. “You’re not doing that in the state of Florida.”

Over the past year, DeSantis has emerged one of the most articulate political spokesmen for the anti-critical race theory movement. His new policy agenda builds on successful anti-CRT legislation in other states but goes two steps further. First, it provides parents with a “private right of action,” which allows them to sue offending institutions for violations, gain information through legal discovery, and, if they win in the courts, collect attorney’s fees. Second, it tackles critical race theory in corporate “diversity, equity, and inclusion” training programs, which, DeSantis says, sometimes promote racial stereotyping, scapegoating, and harassment, in violation of state civil rights laws.

We are so thankful to be living in Florida under our wonderful Governor, Ron DeSantis. It is horrifying to hear the stories of what parents are going through in other states with “Wokeness” being advocated and pushed in the schools. 

This year DeSantis enacted legislation to aid us in our fight.

  • Individual Freedom Bill Hb 7 
  • The Parental Rights in Education Bill HB 1557 
  •  K-12 Education Bill HB 1467

 

Take the time to read over the summary and familiarize yourself with them so that you know how far we have come and how the law is written to protect the rights of parents and children. Share with your family and friends. These are things most people just vaguely know or hear about. You can be the expert.

DeSantis is taking things one step further. He just sent out a memo to all Florida Colleges stating: “All state university & college systems in Florida have been required to report expenditures and resources utilized for campus activities related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and critical race theory.” 

Then he put his plan in action as a mode. He removed Governor-appointed trustees currently serving on the Board of Florida of New College and Sarasota–and he replaced them with  key players  who have been front-line warriors in the fight against woke ideology. This is monumental. It’s a paradigm shift in education. And to think it’s happening right here in our backyard is so incredible. The goal is to eliminate “Political Ideology” from higher public education. 

 

Meet the Players appointed by DeSantis to remove gender theory and Marxist from our institutions of higher learning, the team who tasked with bringing reason and critical thinking to higher education through Classical Education:

  •  Christopher Rufo has been spearheading the education of CRT and Gender ideology in the schools. “There is still a lot of work to do. I’m proud to announce that Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed me to the Board of Trustees of the New College of Florida.” You will find their agenda here in his  tweet. “My ambition is to help the new board majority transform New College into a classical liberal arts institution. We are recapturing higher education.” Check out Chris on Facebook, Twitter

 

  •   Mathew Spalding is a professor at Hillsdale College.He is the best-selling author of We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future, which details America’s core principles, shows how they have come under assault by modern progressive-liberalism, and lays out a strategy to recover them. Spalding is also executive editor of The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, a line-by-line analysis of each clause of the U.S. Constitution. His other books include A Sacred Union of Citizens: Washington’s Farewell Address and the American Character; Patriot Sage: George Washington and the American Political Tradition; and The Founders’ Almanac: A Practical Guide to the Notable Events, Greatest Leaders & Most Eloquent Words of the American Founding. WOW!! Pretty Impressive! 

 

  •    Charles R. Kessler from the Claremont Institute: Recovering the American Idea and  the author of I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Crisis of Liberalism (Broadside Books); the editor of Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding (Free Press); co-editor, with John B. Kienker, of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Ten Years of the Claremont Review of Books (Rowman & Littlefield); and co-editor, with William F. Buckley, Jr., of Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought (HarperCollins). He has written extensively on American constitutionalism and political thought, and his edition of The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics) is the best-selling edition in the country. 

 

  • Eddie Speir the superintendent of Inspiration Academy, a private Christian school in Bradenton that has as its mission to “cultivate, nourish and inspire students, using a mentorship model to develop an integrated life of faith from the inside out, in an environment of family, care and love.”

 

  • Mark Bauerlein is Senior Editor at First Things and Professor of English at Emory University, where he has taught since earning his PhD in English at UCLA in 1989. His books include Literary Criticism: An Autopsy (1997), The Pragmatic Mind: Explorations in the Psychology of Belief (1997), and The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (2008).  

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