Governor DeSantis is picking a fight with the academic left, and it’s a shrewd move.

January 8, 2023 By Thomas Lifson  January 8, 2023

I am thrilled that Ron DeSantis is putting in place people who want to reverse the woke academic coup d'état at one state-run institution of higher education. New College of Florida is a rarity: a public liberal arts small college (675 students) that is part of the State University System of Florida, where in-state tuition is under $7000 a year.

Zac Anderson of the Sarasota Herald Tribune writes:

Gov. Ron DeSantis began the process Friday of transforming Sarasota's New College of Florida into a more conservative institution, appointing six new board members, including conservative activist Christopher Rufo, a dean at conservative Hillsdale College and a senior fellow at The Claremont Institute, a right-wing think tank.

"It is our hope that New College of Florida will become Florida's classical college, more along the lines of a Hillsdale of the south," Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz said in a statement.

The shakeup of the 13-member board is certain to create major tensions at New College, an institution that started as a progressive private school before becoming the state's liberal arts honors college. The small school's student body and faculty have a reputation for leaning left politically.

Factor in the palpable fear and loathing on the left of Ron DeSantis, the new Trump-Hitler. And he is throwing down the gauntlet.........To Read More..... 

 My Take - Fixing education should be job one in America. It's foundational to prevent this planned scheme by leftists to Balkanize America in order to destroy the American culture, the American identity, the American economy and ultimately the Constitution, in order to impose a tyrannous socialistic system of world governance.

Sending these young minds into these vipers nests of intellectually and morally corrupt leftist nitwits and misfits is national suicide, and this reconstitution of America education needs to start in Kindergarten and continue through post graduate studies.

Let's start with elimination of the Department of Education and end all funding to "higher" education, including the end of student loans. Return power to the states and local school boards, which time is showing the insane tyrannous behavior of these school boards can easily be stopped by parents voting them out of office.

If people really think funding education is worthwhile, then fund those going to trade schools. At least they'll graduate with jobs that actually pay well, and will absolutely benefit them and society as a whole.