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The bill aligns with the Trump administration's objective to remove DEI from all facets of education.

After a decade of being led by longtime Sen. Dan Blue, D-Wake, Democrats in the state Senate decided to elect a new leader this year. Sen. Sydney Batch became Senate minority leader last month.

Sen. Dan Blue of Wake County first joined the General Assembly in 1981 and was elected the state's first Black House speaker in 1991. Blue has been the Senate minority leader for over a decade. But on Monday the Senate Democratic Caucus elected Sen. Sydney Batch as the minority leader for the next two-year session.

A recently defeated state legislator and a small-town mayor were formally appointed on Monday to fill vacancies at the North Carolina General Assembly…