The Ohio Senate began consideration this week of a bill to ban diversity, equity and inclusion programs in Ohio public schools, though the bill doesn’t define what would actually count as “DEI.” Senate Education Committee Chair Andy Brenner, R-Delaware, spoke on behalf of his Senate Bill 113 in a hearing Tuesday, arguing that DEI, despite its intentions, resulted in reducing students “to racial categories that determine their opportunities” instead of allowing them to succeed “based on their character, effort and merit.”
