LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The Republican Party’s efforts to end the woke agenda in academia can be found in the state funding bills for K-12 and higher education.

Reading, writing, and reductions.

The House Subcommittee released its funding for 2025-26 that restricts or reduces funding to K-12 schools and colleges who practice things such as diversity, equity and inclusion or allow males to compete in female sports.

MORE NEWS: Payday on the Gridiron: NCAA’s Payout Era Begins, and Michigan Universities Start the Scramble

The details are in the House Fiscal Agency analysis of House Bill 4577 (School Aid) and House Bill 4580 (Higher Education).

Public universities that play college sports and allow biologically defined males to participate in biologically defined female sport teams could lose 5% of state funding. Also, colleges that spend money on DEI programs will have the amount they spent reduced from the state funding they receive.

For K-12 schools, they could be penalized 20% of their per-pupil foundation allowance if the district “uses a curriculum that includes race or gender stereotyping; uses state funding for DEI initiatives; allows transgender girls to participate in girls’ sports; or provides multistall unisex bathrooms.”

“Keep classrooms focused on learning.”

State Rep. Nancy Jenkins-Arno, (R-Rollin Township), put out a statement applauding the actions against DEI initiatives.

The statement said, “the plan ensures that schools don’t use curriculums that promote race or gender stereotyping, it bans funding for DEI initiatives, and it ensures fairness in girls’ athletics by preventing biological males from competing in female sports divisions. These provisions are designed to keep classrooms focused on learning, protect student safety, and ensure fairness in school activities.”

Critics respond.

The progressive Michigan League for Public Policy criticized the bill’s stance on social issues.

MORE NEWS: Whitmer Criticism of Trump’s Tariffs Countered By Record Tariff Revenues in May

“It should also be noted that these bills foster bigotry through the use of anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and anti-DEI language, following the lead of the federal administration in targeting communities that have already faced discrimination and injustice,” the Michigan League for Public Policy President Monique Stanton said in a statement. “Punishing districts and departments for being inclusive does nothing to improve outcomes for kids, and will likely make things worse.”