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Senate committee approves bill limiting 'divisive' trainings for state employees
Summary
The Senate committee approved SB 627 to restrict certain 'divisive' or race-based employee trainings in state agencies while exempting K-12, higher education and constitutional offices; backers said the bill preserves celebration of diversity, critics warned it could affect equity measures.
Little Rock — The Senate committee voted to advance Senate Bill 6 27 on a voice vote after heated questioning about whether the measure could curb equity programs. Sponsor Senator Garner said the bill is intended to stop trainings that "institutionalize" ideas that one race is inherently superior or that hold groups collectively culpable. "This does not stop from teaching diversity," Garner said,…
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