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(Reuters) – Florida’s public university system will decide next Wednesday whether to ban diversity spending and remove sociology classes as a way to fulfill social-science course requirements, a week after the state education board approved the measures for public colleges. The new rules, which easily passed in a Florida Board of Education meeting on Wednesday, would bring the state’s public higher education institutions in line with a bill that Governor Ron DeSantis signed in May. The law banned the spending of tax dollars on college diversity, equity and inclusion programs (DEI) and restrict…

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