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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
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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.)
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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
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To: MtnClimber

Money spent keeping DIE ALIVE. Red meat to the followers.


4 posted on 12/14/2024 5:00:46 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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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))
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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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To: MtnClimber
This is Obama and his crowd. When you realize it is all coming from Mr. ‘Transform America’ it all makes sense.
- Spend the US into crisis proportion deficits, in Cloward-Piven fashion.
- Promote inflation as a way of devaluing the middle class assets and thus ‘redistributing’ wealth and taking away ‘achievement and social mobility via effort’.
- Decrease the ability of the US to protect itself from socialist/communist foreign powers.
- Promote measures (i.e. mail-in ballots and remote ballot boxes, no photo ID, illegal immigration) that dilutes the votes of and prevents push-back by traditional Americans at the ballot box.
- Control and weaponize the intelligence and judicial systems.
- Preemptively label as ‘domestic terrorists’ those factions of US society that are most likely to fight back.
etc. etc.
7 posted on 12/14/2024 5:17:21 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: faithhopecharity

The ‘Rats look after their own - and they never use a dime of their own money.

I remember how Hillary! didn’t campaign, but she sure ate a lot of rubber chicken with rich donors.


8 posted on 12/14/2024 5:39:18 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: MtnClimber

Stop issuing new money federal student loans.


9 posted on 12/14/2024 5:43:43 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: neverevergiveup

This is Obama and his crowd

All turds, all of them. Just cannot flush them quick enough. Best thing that happened with Trump win was that the huge fraud was pulled down a few more pegs. The bum did more to destroy race relations in this country than anyone in history. Meanwhile, the sands of time are moving quickly for the intrenched dems in government. When anyone of them croaks, I cheer.


10 posted on 12/14/2024 5:44:12 AM PST by Mouton (A 150MT hit may not solve our problems now but is a good start. )
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To: MtnClimber

Just one more reason why this ‘department’ should be eliminated.
Damn you, Jimmuh!


11 posted on 12/14/2024 5:46:48 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: MtnClimber

DOGE


12 posted on 12/14/2024 5:47:25 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: neverevergiveup

“Spend the US into crisis proportion deficits”

I have proposed a value added tax payable by corporations.

In year one, it might be payable by multi-national corporations doing business in a VAT country.

In year two, it might be payable by corporations doing business in more than one state.

In year three, it might be payable by all corporations, including S corporations.

At an 8% tax rate, a federal corporation VAT might yield $1.6 trillion/year.

Individuals with unincorporated businesses would be exempt. These businesses would almost all be in the huge service sector.

A proliferation of service businesses would lower service prices and substantially lowering its inflationary impact.


13 posted on 12/14/2024 5:51:54 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: PGalt

WIKI

The Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (PSSCC), commonly referred to as the Grace Commission, was an investigation requested by United States President Ronald Reagan, authorized in Executive Order 12369 on June 30, 1982.

In doing so President Reagan used the now famous phrase, “Drain the swamp”.

The survey’s focus was on eliminating waste and inefficiency in the United States federal government.

Businessman J. Peter Grace chaired the commission. Reagan asked the members of that commission to “Be bold. We want your team to work like tireless bloodhounds. Don’t leave any stone unturned in your search to root out inefficiency.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Commission

We as a nation don’t need much more federal government than we did in 1982.


14 posted on 12/14/2024 5:53:52 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber

Federal grant programs need to go.


15 posted on 12/14/2024 5:56:32 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Taxman

ping


16 posted on 12/14/2024 6:05:48 AM PST by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! SUPPORT THE FAIRTAX!)
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To: MtnClimber
One billion that didn't need spending.

Get the Feds out of the Education Business. And how the hell did we get into the School Loan business.

Lotsa money to be saved in this Department.

17 posted on 12/14/2024 6:05:53 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Brian Griffin

Sell the present loans and get out of the School Loan business...period.


18 posted on 12/14/2024 6:07:38 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Brian Griffin

These grants are welfare...simply welfare. Most are complete BS
. They undermine honesty and merit.


19 posted on 12/14/2024 6:10:15 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

Hilliary is the more power-hungry one of the Clinton duet


20 posted on 12/14/2024 6:17:46 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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