{"id":2209231,"date":"2024-03-29T14:18:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T18:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kentucky-gop-supermajority-fails-to-pass-college-dei-ban\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T14:18:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T18:18:38","slug":"kentucky-gop-supermajority-fails-to-pass-college-dei-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kentucky-gop-supermajority-fails-to-pass-college-dei-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky&#8217;s Republican supermajority falls short in passing ban on college DEI"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkentucky-gop-supermajority-fails-to-pass-college-dei-ban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2209231&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Kentucky Senate&#8217;s Republican supermajority\u200b failed to pass\u200d a\u200c ban on university diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, potentially ending the \u200cmeasure for the legislative session. Governor Andy Beshear, supporting DEI, can now veto any related bills during the remaining session days. The issue is likely deferred to the next session as Beshear plans\u2064 to veto any DEI bans. The Kentucky Senate&#8217;s Republican supermajority was unable to secure the \u200cpassage of a ban on university diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, potentially bringing the measure to a halt for the legislative session. Governor Andy Beshear, a proponent of DEI, holds the power to veto any related bills in the remaining session days,\u200c hinting at a probable postponement of the issue to the next session due to Beshear&#8217;s anticipated veto of any DEI bans.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kentucky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kentucky<\/a> Senate Republican supermajority failed to pass a ban on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>university<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/dei\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>diversity, equity, and inclusion<\/a> offices late Thursday night, likely killing the measure for the legislative session.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate adjourned just prior to midnight without passing the bill to defund DEI offices, staff, and training dedicated to \u201cimplementing and promoting\u201d the \u201cdiscriminatory concepts\u201d at institutions of higher education in Kentucky, according to the legislative text. Kentucky legislators were up against a veto recess, meaning Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY), who supports DEI, can now reject anything passed in the remaining days of the legislative session without state lawmakers having enough time to override his veto.<\/p>\n<p>Beshear has already vowed to veto any DEI ban, and any attempt to revisit the issue will likely be tabled until the next session.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Republican Senate Majority Whip Mike Wilson, who initially authored the bill, said that \u201cour public universities have been plagued by a new form of discrimination,\u201d describing the racialized framework as \u201cideologies attempting to suppress free speech and ideological diversity, undermine academic freedom and the principle of equal opportunity, devalue academic and professional merits, and reduce the values of diversity to a bureaucratic exercise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.legislature.ky.gov\/recorddocuments\/bill\/24RS\/SB6\/HCS1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>bill<\/a> defined DEI as \u201cpolicies, practices, or procedures designed or implemented to promote or provide differential treatment or benefits to individuals on the basis of religion, race, sex, color, or national origin.\u201d If passed, the legislation would have barred the ideology from being used to inform a variety of employment practices, as well as student recruitment, admissions, housing, financial assistance, and scholarships. It would also have prohibited \u201ctraining, conference, presentation, meeting, or professional development containing, implementing, or promoting discriminatory concepts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it would have blocked schools from requesting diversity statements from prospective employees and students.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers in Kentucky would not speak about the eleventh-hour disagreements that took place behind closed doors, the <em>Lexington Herald-Leader<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/news\/politics-government\/article287172050.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>reported<\/a>, but the bill, which originated in the state Senate, returned to the chamber with significant alterations from the state House when it came back for final passage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been contentious within our caucus, and that\u2019s about all I can say \u2014 that\u2019s all I will say,\u201d Republican Senate President Robert Stivers said. <\/p>\n<p>While the original Senate version of the bill referred to common DEI-related narratives such as \u201crace scapegoating\u201d and the ideas that some people are \u201cinherently racist\u201d and \u201cAmericans are not created equal,\u201d some of the changes made in the House referred more generally to \u201coppression, colonialism, socioeconomic status, religion, race, sex, color or national origin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republican House Speaker David Osborne said Kentucky\u2019s House and Senate leadership could not come to a compromise on language in time to pass a bill.<\/p>\n<p>Many in Kentucky anticipated a DEI ban to pass, following a growing number of states that have defunded the ideology at their public institutions. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late Thursday night, the Kentucky Senate&#8217;s Republican supermajority failed to pass a ban on university DEI offices, likely halting the measure for the session. 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