U. Missouri, U. Iowa received offers to teach public school teachers in ‘ antiracist counseling’ and ‘ equity-centered education’
The U. S. Department of Education has spent more than$ 1 billion funding diversity, equity, and inclusion programming in public schools and higher education institutions since 2021, according to a new report.
Parents Defending Education’s findings generally reveal that DEI money was given to projects involving grades K through 12, but the ministry also granted a number of grants to university programs involving grades K through 12 students.
” But frequently, many believe these La activities are just happening in higher training”, the group’s Vice President Caroline Moore told The College Fix.
While this education occurs in the higher education sector, Moore stated in an emailed statement on Monday that his organization’s statement shows that these deliberately social and discriminatory practices are just as common in the K-12 environment.
In some instances, the two are immediately linked.
For instance, the University of Iowa received a$ 1.2 million award to teach elementary school teachers to “enact equity-centered knowledge” 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 in an effort to increase high school participation among “low-income, racial minoritized groups.”
A curriculum linked to the program has students study the “origins, preservation, effect, intersectionality, and levels … of widespread and structural oppression ( racism/white power, discrimination, discrimination, heterosexism, and xenophobia…” the report found.
The University of Missouri at St. Louis also received a$ 306, 209 grant to provide “antracist social-emotional” training to public school counselors, according to the report.
Moore argued that her business would like to see state and federal officials reverse or repurpose the grants to help all students who are struggling professionally.
Other than that these popular grants and the use of the term “equity” seem to be embedded in the agency’s corporate plan,” we don’t assume why the department is giving so little money to these initiatives,” she said.
According to Moore,” Equity appears to be the most significant concern for this Department of Education.”
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Some of the money, according to a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, may be outlawed.
The impact is that national politicians are using taxpayer funds to pay for teacher training and instruction that might offend state and federal civil rights laws, according to Jonathan Butcher, who spoke with The Fix in an email on Tuesday.
Butcher said DEI initiatives promote “racial bias” and advocate for “racial favoritism”.
He claimed that” the Civil Rights Act of 1964″ could be violated by mandatory affinity groups and race restrictions.
Putting off propriety, Butcher claimed that” DE I courses and materials do not make business offices more welcoming or classrooms more accepting” or that Butcher’s statement was untrue. ” Rather, DEI fosters hate and using tortured puns activities, manufactures reasons for racial and ethnic minorities to sense subjugated”.
The Cato Institute, a prominent liberal thinktank, even is calling for an ending to DEI funding in training.
Research brother Erec Smith told The Fix  on Monday that the general philosophy of most DEI initiatives is “distinctly controversial and cold, two things that shouldn’t not define our government or any of our praised institutions.”
In response to the report, Smith claimed that money may be better spent on initiatives that support individuals of” all races and creeds.”
He said the “woke” philosophy is not economically efficient sometimes.
” For instance, race-based contracting choices actually limit opposition and, by extension, control choices”, Smith told The Fix. The requirement for minority-owned businesses to receive funding enables those businesses to require higher requests. This isn’t effective financial control.
Parents Defending Education’s record documents DEI spending by only one organization during the Biden administration.
According to another recent investigation, The Fix reported that the National Science Foundation also contributed more than$ 2 billion to DEI research over the past three years.
Some major Republican legislators demanding an end to the ideologically-based money.
U. S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, who chairs the House Education Committee, described the$ 1 billion in DEI spending as “jaw-dropping”.
” PDE’s new review… confirms that this administration was more anxious about contorting the heads of America’s potential leaders, rather than educating them”, Foxx stated in a recent news release.
” Fortunately for parents, students, and hardworking taxpayers, DEI, like the rest of this administration, is being bagged up and placed on the curb come January – it’s time to take out the trash”, the North Carolina Republican stated.
When Donald Trump takes office in January, he has promised to make significant reductions to federal spending. The Republican president stated, among other things, that he wants to end the Department of Education.
Further: Senator proposes bill to prohibit Education Department after Trump’s claim
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