Photo credits: Iowa Legislature
Headline: Des Moines Register, 5/10/2025
Marissa Payne reports on the infestation of parrots at the Iowa state capitol:
In a 34-16 vote on party lines, the Iowa Senate on May 9 passed House File 856 extending restrictions on DEI initiatives that lawmakers in 2024 placed on the three public universities governed by the Iowa Board of Regents to community colleges.
The bill also sets DEI prohibitions for state agencies, cities, counties and other political subdivisions, barring them from spending any money appropriated by the state or from any other sources to establish or support a DEI office or DEI employee.
GOP lawmakers have cast the legislation dismantling DEI initiatives as refocusing Iowas higher education system and government agencies on workforce training and restoring a merit-based system, but continue to push proposals to expand intellectual diversity at institutions they say are filled with students and staff who lean to the political left.
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