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The bill was signed into law last week.<\/p>\n
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Legislation signed into law by Kansas governor Laura Kelly, a Democrat, will prohibit public colleges from mandating students take \u201cDEI-CRT\u201d courses, Higher Ed Dive <\/em>reports.<\/p>\n The provision, which was passed last week as part of a larger budget bill, does not define diversity, equity and inclusion; critical race theory; or \u201cDEI-CRT courses\u201d but requires the state board of higher ed do so by the end of July. Then, by July 31, 2028, the state\u2019s public colleges will have to certify that they don\u2019t \u201crequire or constrain students to enroll in a DEI-CRT course in order to satisfy the requirements of any academic program.\u201d<\/p>\n Kelly described the overall legislation as a \u201cbad budget that went through a bad process.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDespite this being a really bad budget, I will sign it, because the alternative is worse,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n Free speech groups argue that this law could censor curriculum and will cause a chilling effect on classroom discussions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Amy Reid, director of the Freedom to Learn program at PEN America, a First Amendment advocacy group, warned in a news release that the law reflects a larger trend of crackdowns on campus free speech.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe passage and signing of this provision as part of Kansas\u2019s budget bill is, sadly, proof of the dangerous normalization of educational censorship, even in a state with a Democratic governor,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The bill was signed into law last week. Photo illustration by Justin Morrison\/Inside Higher Ed | Liudmila Chernetska and narvo vexar\/iStock\/Getty Images \u00a0 Legislation signed into law by Kansas governor Laura Kelly, a Democrat, will prohibit public colleges from mandating students take \u201cDEI-CRT\u201d courses, Higher Ed Dive reports. The provision, which was passed last week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[24211,86,3979,5541,175,24210,181],"class_list":{"0":"post-48307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-deicrt","9":"tag-gen","10":"tag-gov","11":"tag-kansas","12":"tag-law","13":"tag-prohibiting","14":"tag-signs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}