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Despite student opposition, Idaho ban on DEI initiatives likely to move forward

by By JODIE SCHWICHT / For the Coeur d'Alene Press
| January 15, 2025 1:00 AM

BOISE — Draft legislation proposed last Thursday would ban certain general education courses, diversity training, bias reporting systems and general education courses at Idaho public universities, and provide the Idaho attorney general with enforcement authority over university compliance. 

The six-page draft contains extensive definitions of what constitutes diversity, equity and inclusion ideology, including unconscious or implicit bias, antiracism, racial privilege, patriarchy and related concepts.

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