Remember days of yore, I don't know, 2022 maybe, when we were told that Critical Race Theory isn't in schools?
Yeah, I sure am glad we can put that myth to rest.
The U.S. Department of Education spent at least $1 billion on grants advancing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in hiring, programming and mental health training in America's schools since 2021, according to a new report.
Parents Defending Education 'PDE,' a right-leaning organization that pledges to 'reclaim our schools from activists imposing harmful agendas,' shared its new report exclusively with Fox News Digital.
I imagine the conversation at the Department of Education went something like this:
Lackey: "Hey boss, how much should we spend pushing anti-racist DEI onto public schools?"
DoE Secretary Cardona:
From, "We aren't pushing wokeness in schools" to "We spent the last 4 years spending a billion bucks on grants to push wokeness" in no time flat.
Researchers at the organization pored through nearly four years of publicly available data from the Department of Education to determine the number of grants and the dollar amount awarded to students and school districts for grants that had a clear DEI 'motive.'
From 2021 to present, they found the Biden administration awarded 229 grants across 42 states and Washington, D.C. that met that criteria ...
According to the report, $489,883,797 was spent on grants for race-based hiring; $343,337,286 went toward general DEI programming; and $169,301,221 went to DEI-based mental health training and programming, totaling $1,002,522,304.81 spent in all.
These are your tax dollars being used to push racist hiring, racist propaganda, and racist programming in public schools.
And they want me to fear the Department of Education possibly shutting down?
Examples in the report include a $3,974,496 grant given to the School District of Philadelphia for a restorative justice program headed by a former Communist Party USA member; a $4,000,000 grant given for a 3-week residential "culturally responsive" computer science summer camp for 600 11th and 12th graders; and $38,000 grant to a Michigan school district for a one-day professional development training by an equity consultant, along with copies of the consultant's book.
What would we do without the Department of Education pushing "restorative justice" (a commie term for not punishing bad behavior) in schools?
Fortunately, the next president knows exactly how to deal with this.
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