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The Department of Justice spent over $100 million on proposals promoting woke content in classrooms between 2021 and 2024, according to a new report first obtained by The Daily Wire. An investigation conducted by Parents Defending Education (PDE) found that the Biden DOJ awarded over $100,113,942 through 102 grants, throughout 36 states, impacting 946 school districts and upwards of 3 million K-12 students. Those funds were spent on proposals promoting restorative justice practices, social and emotional learning practices, and diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in the classroom over the past four years, The Daily Wire has learned. The funds were...

Donald Trump’s re-election has been hailed by some as the nail in the coffin for ‘wokeness’, a movement now rejected by both the left and the right. But how did it fall so far out of favour? When Donald Trump launched his 2024 presidential campaign, he centred his platform on a promise to end “wokeness”. In his campaign video, “Agenda47: President Trump’s Ten Principles for Great Schools Leading to Great Jobs”, the now president-elect declared schools a key battleground to be reclaimed from the left, pledging to ban lessons on gender identity and structural racism in classrooms. Before his election...