Alabama's proposed ban on DEI funding restricts 'divisive concepts': What to know

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : The nine-page bill lists eight main prohibitions, aimed at public colleges, local boards of education, and state agencies.
52% : The way schools teach students about those topics has been a political lightning rod in recent years, as opponents took aim at critical race theory.
50% : Alabama lawmakers voted to ban state funding of diversity, equity and inclusion programs in schools, public colleges and state agencies on Tuesday, joining a wave of Republican-led legislatures targeting DEI efforts.
49% : "Nothing in this act," the legislation states, ".... May be construed to inhibit or violate the First Amendment rights of any student or employee, or to undermine the duty of a public institution of higher education to protect, to the greatest degree, academic freedom, intellectual diversity, and free expression.
48% : It also requires public colleges to designate bathrooms "for use by individuals based on their biological sex.
45% : While the bill targets DEI efforts, it also states that public colleges can authorize teaching any divisive concept, as long as it's done "in an objective manner and without endorsement as part of a larger course of academic instruction" that does not "compel assent" and otherwise adheres to the bill.

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