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Utah Board of Education measure targets diversity programs 'still present and active' in schools
2025-04-22 00:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
SALT LAKE CITY The debate over diversity programming in Utah schools eliminated, presumably, in a controversial law approved by Utah lawmakers last year isn't over.The Utah Board of Education on Thursday will consider a resolution targeting lingering diversity, equity and inclusion practices that it says are "still present and active" in the state's schools and Board of Education rules. Per the proposal, the Board of Education calls on the state body and local school districts to "immediately disband" practices, programming, curriculum and policies aimed at promoting diversity, equity and inclusion, known by the acronym DEI.The measure's preliminary clauses go further, tying diversity initiatives to Soviet-style communism.The intent of diversity programming is "to achieve the Soviet Communist goal of actual equality, or equity..., by implementing a political favoritism program in the name of identity politics," the proposed resolution reads. The push for diversity, equity and inc...
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