Report: Biden’s Department of Education Spent Over $1 Billion on DEI Grants
American Greatness ^ | 13 Dec, 2024 | Eric Lendrum
Posted on 12/14/2024 4:57:30 AM PST by MtnClimber
A new report claims that the Biden Administration’s Department of Education has spent over $1 billion on grants that force the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda in hiring practices, programming, and mental health training in public schools.
According to Fox News, the report from the watchdog group Parents Defending Education (PDE) claims that this DEI spending has been ongoing since 2021. PDE researchers found a total of 229 such grants across 42 states, plus Washington D.C., during the roughly four-year time period.
With the spending broken down along specific criteria, nearly $490 million was spent for grants that demanded more racial bias in hiring practices, while $343 million was spent on general DEI programs, and another $170 million was spent on mandating DEI-based mental health training. This amounts to just over $1 billion, at approximately $1,002,522,304.
This spending “incorporates both awarded (committed) and disbursed dollars, as most of the grant money is distributed [a] period of several years,” the report reads.
One of the researchers who worked on the report, Rhyen Staley, said it was likely that the report does not even account for every single grant that may be considered pro-DEI, as the report narrowed down their search to a handful of criteria. This led to the researchers ignoring many other grants that they determined to be simply using “buzzwords” rather than actively promoting DEI.
“The only people or groups to benefit from the enormous amount of grant funding are the universities, administrators, and DEI consultants, at the expense of children’s education,” said Staley. “This needs to change by placing children’s learning at the forefront of education, instead of prioritizing race-based policies and DEI.”
A statement was issued by PDE Senior Advisor Michele Exner, declaring that “over one billion dollars [have been] squandered on progressive pet projects all while American students’ academic performance continues to plummet. Under Secretary [Miguel] Cardona, this organization has been a complete farce that has failed families and students time and time again.”
“This will be the legacy of the Biden administration’s Department of Education,” Exner added. “Families are fed up and are excited for January when we will have new leadership in the nation’s capital who will focus on getting this toxic and divisive waste out of our education system.”
The Department of Education has long been a target of conservative scrutiny, with many advocating for the abolition of the department altogether, as it has failed to improve average test scores or education quality across the nation. President-elect Donald Trump vowed on the campaign trail that he would eliminate the department, a sentiment that was echoed by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the leaders of Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: wokeism
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1 posted on 12/14/2024 4:57:30 AM PST by MtnClimber
To: MtnClimber
Money spent to make factions of society fight each other. Forcing us to pay for owr own destruction.
2 posted on 12/14/2024 4:57:40 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: MtnClimber
Merely another payoff to the good little party apparatchiks who support the Mummy in Chief and everything he does.
3 posted on 12/14/2024 4:59:58 AM PST by Lizavetta
To: MtnClimber
Money spent keeping DIE ALIVE. Red meat to the followers.
To: MtnClimber
My lord! Our tax money spent to create more racism, antagonism, and discrimination in society
While depriving us of equal protection of the law
And it’s our tax money they’re using against us, too
Whoever said the dems aren’t intelligent?! They’re brilliant! Diabolically brilliant. But still brilliant.
5 posted on 12/14/2024 5:05:21 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
To: MtnClimber
The poor, uneducated, Hispanic, renters with single Moms are where the violent crimes are.
https://bestneighborhood.org/conservative-vs-liberal-map-los-angeles-county-ca/
https://crimegrade.org/violent-crime-los-angeles-ca/
https://bestneighborhood.org/race-in-los-angeles-county-ca/
https://bestneighborhood.org/housing-data-in-los-angeles-county-ca/
https://bestneighborhood.org/household-income-los-angeles-county-ca/
https://bestneighborhood.org/educational-achievement-in-los-angeles-county-ca/
https://bestneighborhood.org/demographics-in-los-angeles-county-ca/
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanfranciscocitycalifornia
San Francisco:
Foreign born persons, percent, 2017-2021 34.1%
White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent 39.2%
Asian alone, percent(a) 34.4%
Hispanic or Latino, percent(b) 15.4%
Black or African American alone, percent(a) 5.2%
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/newyorkcitynewyork/POP645221
New York City:
Foreign born persons, percent, 2017-2021 36.3%
White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent 31.9%
Hispanic or Latino, percent(b) 28.9%
Black or African American alone, percent(a) 23.4%
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/detroitcitymichigan/POP645221
Detroit:
Foreign born persons, percent, 2017-2021 5.7%
White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent 10.1%
Black or African American alone, percent(a) 77.9%
Hispanic or Latino, percent(b) 7.8%
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/losangelescitycalifornia/POP645221
Los Angeles
Foreign born persons, percent, 2017-2021 36.2%
White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent 28.1%
Hispanic or Latino, percent(b) 48.4%
Asian alone, percent(a) 11.7%
Black or African American alone, percent(a) 8.6%
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/orangecountycalifornia/POP645221
Orange County, California:
Foreign born persons, percent, 2017-2021 29.4%
White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent 38.0%
Hispanic or Latino, percent(b) 34.0%
Asian alone, percent(a) 23.3%
Black or African American alone, percent(a) 2.3%
6 posted on 12/14/2024 5:07:47 AM PST by Haddit
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