DeSantis signs K-12 'Victims of Communism' bill while railing against college-campus communists

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Monday a measure creating a “Victims of Communism Day” at Florida’s public schools, though much of the discussion centered around what state officials believe to be a rise in communist sympathies at Florida’s college campuses.

The bill in question, HB 395, establishes ‘Victims of Communism Day’ in Florida’s public K -12 schools, with specific efforts in high school, such as 45 minutes of classroom instruction in 2023-24 about various communist governments and their leaders.

But at a press conference Monday in Miami-Dade, DeSantis switched over to talk not about K-12 education but rather college campuses, which the governor tends to view as liberal bastions.

He claimed that a lot of young people “don’t really know that much about what communism meant in practice” and “there are probably more Marxists on college faculties in the United States, than there are in all of eastern Europe combined.” The governor did not provide specific data on those numbers during the press conference.

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