Texas lawmakers have filed a slew of bills this year that could have a significant effect on transgender youth; what is taught in schools; and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Graffiti near the University of Texas at Austin campus denounces"woke" agendas. But while hot-button social issues are getting attention from Texas GOP lawmakers, polling shows some of these policies don't necessarily line up with what constituents want.
“What you find with this set of issues is that in many ways it is much more national than it is statewide in nature,” said Joshua Blank, the research director at UT Austin Texas Politics Project."The nature of a new issue is that it almost always advantages the conservative position because the traditional conservative position is to go back to what everybody knows and is comfortable with."from state Rep.
“It’s very uncomfortable for people I think of my generation, and the generation that’s following, to use race as an issue or a standard in accepting people to public universities or as part of the hiring process and application process in a job,” Tepper said., affirmative action is a “set of procedures designed to eliminate unlawful discrimination among applicants, remedy the results of such prior discrimination, and prevent such discrimination in the future.
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