The Senate from Ohio adopted a controversial law on higher education, which would view public state universities during Wednesday’s session. It came one day after over 800 Ohioans testified against him. Fourteen people testified in supporters. The sponsor of the Act called these numbers “irrelevant”.
Ohio Senate Bill 1 was adopted in voting 21-11. All nine Democrats and two Republicans – Bill Blessing and Tom Patton – voted against the act that would go to Ohio’s house for consideration.
Senator of State Jerry Cirino, R-Kirtland, introduced SB 1 less than a month ago.
“This is a reform needed to improve and make higher education in Ohio”, ” Cirino said. “We must constantly move the goals line so that we are better, react to demographic changes and require the work that our graduates take up.”
The protesters opposing SB 1 exploded in the song a moment after the release of the bill, shouting, among others: “Who killed Higher Ed? Ohio Senate did! Who killed the higher ED? Senator Cirino did! ”
The protesters continued songs with the names of various legislators who left the Chamber of Senate.
Asked why this law was quickly followed by the Senate, the president of the Senate Rob McColley, R-Napoleon, said that the Senate adopted an almost identical bill that Cirino presented during the last general congregation.
“The minds of everyone are properly invented, what we should do in this area, so we have not seen a reason to delay this process,” he said.
What’s in the Bill 1 Senate?
SB 1 would prohibit the efforts of diversity and integration, prevent lecturers from hitting, establishing rules regarding discussion in the classroom, expose various scholarships, shortened the management of the Trusteen University from nine years to six years and require students to participate in the American history course, among the course of history. Other things.
As for the discussion in the classroom, he would set rules on topics covering “controversial beliefs”, such as climate policy, electoral policy, foreign policy, diversity and integration programs, immigration policy, marriage or abortion.
The Act defines a discussion in the classroom, allows students to “draw their own conclusions about all controversial beliefs or politicians and will not try to indoctrify any social, political or religious point of view.”
“Many of them are associated with making sure that the variety of thinking is practiced as a politician at our universities and social universities”, ” Cirino said.
SB 1 will affect public universities and social universities of Ohio, not private universities.
The Democrats Senate tried to make a few corrections to SB 1 during the Wednesday Senate session, but none of the amendments were accepted.
Less than 24 hours before Wednesday’s voice of the Senate, over 800 people submitted a testimony of the opposite SB 1 during the Tuesday meeting of the Higher Education Committee in Ohio Senate, which lasted over eight hours.
But when asked about the number of opponents, she received his bill, Cirino said: “The number is irrelevant.”
Fourteen people reported a supporter Certificate at SB 1 at the previous meeting of the Committee.
“I would not see it as a scientific measure of general support in the whole state or opposition in the whole state, what it is,” said McColley, when asked about overwhelming opposition to SB 1.
Senate discussion
Two hours of discussion about the act during Wednesday’s Senate session before voting. All nine democrats of the Senate spoke against the act, and four Republicans expressed support for the act.
“Students will leave their state and go somewhere else, where their ability to study, and clear freedom of speech is not subject to this law,” said senator Bill Demora, D-Combus. “This account is the worst bill.”
The quality of education suffers when the legislators gain the right to control what is taught at universities, said Casey Weinstein senator, D-Hudson.
“This act encourages political interference in academic affairs,” he said.
Leader of the minority Senate Nicke J. Antonio, D-shelawood, said SB 1 is It’s a pity for higher education in Ohio.
“The assumption of the act is that in some way public universities are bastions of liberalism that try to indoctrify our children,” she said. “I think that this will make universities in Ohio not beneficial for students, especially students with different environments that are looking for places to be their full, complete self.”
Senator of State Kristina Roegner, R-Hudson, spoke in favor of the Act.
“We want universities and universities of Ohio to be places where students achieve their full intellectual potential, in which research and critical thinking are promoted, in which freedom of speech is encouraged and where the innovations are nurtured and the performance is rewarded as the best, we must be as the best, we must be meritocrat – she said.
Many students and lecturers said that he would leave Ohio if SB 1 passes, but Cirino said that he did not believe that there would be mass migration from the state.
“I think that the better we improve the higher education in Ohio, the more attractive we will be students of all kinds,” he said. “I would never participate in anything that destroyed the higher ED.”
Herring reporter capital journal Megan Henry on BlueSky.
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