The U. S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled the Trump presidency is reduce diversity, equity and inclusion offers mostly awarded to colleges and universities to teach future teachers on La concepts.
The 5-4 selection reversed an order by a national judge that had stop the U. S. Department of Education from its plans to block the spending.
In reporting on this information over the weekend, many major news organizations ‘ headlines just stated the ruling allows the Trump administration to remove teacher training grants, and did not include the caveat that the cuts are focused on DEI.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the California State University and the University of California lost eight grants valued at about$ 56 million” to recruit and train teachers to work in’ hard to staff ‘ schools in rural or urban areas”.
” Among the canceled programs was a$ 7.5-million grant to Cal State L. A. to train and certify 276 teachers over five years to work in high-need or high-poverty schools in the Los Angeles Unified and Pasadena Unified school districts. Other cancellations included an$ 8-million program at UCLA to train at least 314 middle school principals as well as math, English, science and social science teachers to serve in several Los Angeles county school districts”, the Times reported.
However, the programs had come under scrutiny for being ideologically extreme as well as a waste of taxpayer dollars. The Education Department announced in February it was eliminating$ 600 million in funding to such programs.
” Training materials included inappropriate and unnecessary topics such as Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ( DEI), social justice activism,’ anti-racism’, and instruction on white privilege and white supremacy. Additionally, many of these grants included teacher and staff recruiting strategies implicitly and explicitly based on race”, the Education Department stated in a news release.
For example, education watchdog Christopher Rufo had reported in February on some of the programs funded through these efforts:
I released material from an ongoing investigation into ideological corruption at the Department of Education and its sprawling NGO network. This material painted a damning picture of the department’s reigning ideologies. In one video, a Department of Education-funded NGO argued that public-school educators should destigmatize child” sex work”, especially for “queer and trans people of color” and “LGBTQ+ youth”. In another, activists with a Department of Education-affiliated NGO claimed that babies develop racial biases and begin “attributing negative traits” to nonwhite races by age five. And finally, I published a clip from an NGO that had received an$ 8 million grant to promote the idea that America is a “racialized structure of power, privilege, ]and ] oppression”.
As for the ruling, the “majority seemed to have little sympathy for the states, declaring that’ any ensuing irreparable harm would be of their own making ‘ if they choose not to fund the programs themselves”, Politico reported, adding in the dissent some justices worried yanking the grants so quickly will create havoc and harm.
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