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Over$ 100 million in funding for college grants was spent by the Biden administration’s Department of Education to teach K-12 social staff in the anti-racism, “anti-racism,” and critical race theory.
The Education Department gave$ 100, 964, and 880 to 26 colleges and universities for the far-left trainings, according to a report from Parents Defending Education ( PDE ). Under the Mental Health Service Professional Demonstration and School-Based Mental Health Services offer programs, the provides were allegedly intended to assist individuals with psychological health.
In a press release, PDE’s director of outreach said that “school social workers did not spend years marinating in very intellectual courses about privilege, oppression, cultural capitalism, and white supremacy. However, this is now a common practice in both public and private universities.” The fact that the U.S. Department of Education has been funding it since 2021 is a big red flag, “while certainly disturbing, but it is disturbing nonetheless. If students perceive them as tyrants with undeserved privilege, how is a social worker assist them in developing their best version of themselves?
The review comes as Education Secretary Linda McMahon is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday that directs President Donald Trump to dismantle the department as much as technically can without compromising necessary responsibilities like providing student loans, funding civil rights investigations, and distributing education funds to states.
Georgia State University’s Master of Social Work programme received an$ 8 million award in 2023 from the training department. According to the school website, the system, which is directed at children mental heath, requires a” Diversity and Social Justice” course, which “focuses on understanding and applying diverse concepts to practice, developing awareness of one’s cultural identity, and exploring how diversity and justice issues impact specialist practice in the context of field education.”
For its Master of Social Work software, Florida International University was awarded$ 6 million for” Project DIG” and aimed to “recruit and retain credentialed mental health providers from different background” as well as adopting “anti-racist and anti-oppressive systems.
In 2023, the University of Alaska Anchorage received another$ 1.2 million to support a bachelor’s degree in social job that calls for a course titled” Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Through Community Service Learning.” The course uses intersectionality as a platform to examine the relationship between oppression, privilege, and cultural humility across several dimensions of distinction.
The University of Alaska Anchorage also offers a Master of Social Work program that examines” the parallel dimensions of human variety as they relate to personality development, human rights, social, economic, environmental, and cultural justice” through the study of oppression, privilege, and power across microscopic, macro, and micro levels of social work practice.
The Trump administration has also been working to eradicate concepts like DEI ideology, critical race theory, and other discriminatory practices from schools in addition to completely destroying the Department of Education. A Biden-appointed judge had already ordered the grants to be reinstated, even though the Trump administration had already slashed hundreds of millions in far-left teacher training.
Breccan F. Thies covers The Federalist’s elections correspondent. He previously covered issues of culture and education for Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner. He is a Publius Fellow at the 2022 Claremont Institute and holds a degree from the University of Virginia. On Twitter, @BreccanFThies, you can follow him.
