Stay W.O.K.E.: A Legislative Rewrite to the STOP W.O.K.E. Act

On July 1, 2022, HB 7, the Stop W.O.K.E. Act became law in the state of Florida. The bill’s goal was to “protect individual freedoms and prevent discrimination in the workplace and public schools. In actuality, the bill was designed to deny funding and support for any institutional practice, policy, or academic requirement that compels belief in CRT or related concepts such as intersectionality, or the idea that systems of oppression should be the primary lens through which teaching and learning are analyzed and/ or improved upon. This white paper contextualizes the STOP W.O.K.E. Act in the culture wars, and proposes the Critical Race Theory Education Act as its antidote.