DeSantis has railed against the process by which tenure is awarded and GOP lawmakers have imposed conservative education reforms across the state.

Professors from across the country have long been lured to Florida’s public colleges and universities, with the educators attracted to the research opportunities, student bodies, and the warm weather.

But for a swath of liberal-leaning professors, many of them holding highly coveted tenured positions, they’ve felt increasingly out of place in the Sunshine State. And some of them are pointing to the conservative administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as the reason for their departures, according to The New York Times.

DeSantis, who was elected to the governorship in 2018 and was easily reelected last fall, has over the course of his tenure worked to put a conservative imprint on a state where moderation was once a driving force in state politics. In recent years, DeSantis has railed against the current process by which tenure is awarded, and with a largely compliant GOP-controlled legislature, he’s imposed conservative education reforms across the state.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The article keeps saying “conservative” when the correct descriptors would be “fascist”, “bigoted” and “anti-education”.

    the conservative fascist administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis

    worked to put a[n] conservative anti-education imprint on [the] state

    with a largely compliant GOP-controlled legislature, he’s imposed conservative bigoted education reforms across the state.

    • Curiousfur@yiffit.net
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      7 months ago

      The conservative platform is all of those things, so it’s completely fair to call it that. The entire party is rotten to the core because they are simply ok with being the party of all of those things.