New College has become a pawn in DeSantis’ war on education in the Sunshine State. But alumni tell The Daily Beast: “The political pawns are going to fight back.”
Once gone —despite fierce student and alumni-supported protests during the board meeting—she was replaced with DeSantis ally Richard Corcoran, who was given a salary bump to the tune of $699,000, more than twice what Okker was on.Daniel, once a NCF sociology major, told The Daily Beast that since she got the first text message, she has barely had a moment’s rest.
“You know, New College has a lot of great lawyers, and they started self organizing and looking at legal issues and policy issues. We have like a bunch of people who do communications and media and strategy … everybody just started organizing into these self-organized channels, which is very New College, right? Like, it's a bunch of independent learners who set up their own curriculum and go do what they want to do.
They mentioned offering legal, legislative, and organizing support, and helping manage communication strategy, while letting students’ wishes and voices come first. “Making sure we’re lighting up student voices across the different groups that DeSantis is attacking,” said Daniel. “I study things like critical race theory, queer theory, and postcolonial theory,” he told The Daily Beast. “We also have people who went on to chair the federal reserve of New York. So the stories that they're telling about this place being broken, I think, are really out of sync with reality.”
O’Malley fears it’s the first testing ground of a growing right-wing plan to alter other states’ public education systems as well.
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