Department of Government Effectiveness head cuts contracts that are DEI-focused.
American taxpayers may soon shortly be liable for 29 La grants and other Department of Education expenses.
Elon Musk, the Department of Government Performance, and its staff of Gen Z software engineers identified thousands of Education Department offers that were devoted to DEI and another deemed useless activities.
The contracts, numbering over 100, work out to around$ 1 billion in savings.
The DOGE X bill announced last night that “one intended to train teachers to help students understand and examine the difficult histories that make up persecution and support students recognize areas of opportunity and energy on an individual and collective foundation.”
The Dept. of Ed., which Trump does immediately try to break okay, also “terminated 89 deals worth$ 881mm”, according to an announcement from Musk’s group.
The cuts even appear to shut down the Institute of Education Sciences, a study finger within the office.
According to a report from The College Fix, the think tank funded a study looking at ways to promote “empowerment” for high school students who are homosexual and transsexual.
Even today, the Department Of Education terminated 89 deals worth$ 881mm.
One company was paid$ 1.5mm to “observe email and clerical procedures” at a fax center. “https ://t.co/VaAw1vNAoa
— Department of Government Efficiency ( @DOGE ) February 11, 2025
Republicans praised the action in remarks on X.
” DEI was always about ‘ capital ‘—it was about enforcing intellectual compliance and institutionalizing bias,” Parents Defending Education President Nicole Neily wrote”. Shutting down these useless, controversial programs is a win for every undergraduate. More says need to adopt match.”
” No a bad stop,” Adam Kissel, former deputy assistant secretary for the Department of Education, wrote in response.
” The children didn’t read,” liberal activist Erika Donalds, the woman of Congressman Byron Donalds, wrote on X.
The children didn’t learn. https ://t.co/deEs0PASrh
— Erika Donalds ( @ErikaDonalds ) February 11, 2025
The reduces come away of Linda McMahon’s confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump’s position in charge of the DOE, scheduled for Thursday.
According to a report from Parents Defending Education, the department has invested at least$ 1 billion in DEI initiatives in K-12 schools since 2021.
The Fix recently reported:
For instance, the University of Iowa received a$ 1.2 million award to teach elementary school teachers to” implement equity-centered training “in their school districts, according to the document.
A program called The LISTEN was funded by an additional$ 4 million grant to the University of California San Diego with the goal of boosting high school participation among “low-income, racial minoritized groups.”
A education linked to the system has students study the” origins, preservation, effect, intersectionality, and levels … of structural and architectural oppression ( racism/white supremacy, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and xenophobia…” the report found.
” Equity appears to be the most important priority for this Department of Education,” Caroline Moore, vice president of PDE, previously told The Fix.
MORE: New research identifies more than 1, 100 DEI-related jobs at University of Michigan
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