Parents published a groundbreaking report in December that Education (PDE) exposed more than $1 billion in waste that the Department of Education (ED) spent on K-12 school diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) grants during its previous administration. President Donald Trump and his team quickly took action.
During a time when student achievement was falling apart, the federal government spent taxpayer dollars on ideological employment practices and indoctrination. of total amount The government wasted on DEI grants and spent nearly $490 million on racially-based recruitment and training practices. Ed spent another $343 million on DEI programming and youth activities and another $169 million on DEI mental health training.
Rather than providing young Americans with the tools they need to survive in the real world, previous administrations have been wasted Unprotected amount Fund a distant left wish list of ideas when students suffer.
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has announced Report In January, it revealed a dramatic decline in student achievement across the country.
Fourth grade students saw a 2 points reduced For reading from 2022 to 2024, the decline increases to 5 points when comparing last year’s score to 2019. The 8th grade students Same reduction In reading, and now a third I can’t read At a skilled level. In mathematics, students in the 8th grade score It was 8 points lower in 2024 than in 2019.
The DEI grants did not help students struggle at least. On the contrary, NAEP data Showed The bottom was completely falling for the most struggling students. Looking at some of the districts that received the largest DEI funds, it reveals how false ED priorities are.
Ypsilanti Community School in Michigan received a $105.5 million grant. However, only 3% of high school students I’m skilled With mathematics within the district. The Philadelphia school districts aren’t that good. The Pennsylvania area received nearly $4 million in grants, but only 14% of elementary and middle school students I’m skilled In mathematics.
Trump and his team have noticed the PDE report and use it as a foundation to clean up Ed’s wasteful spending.
On the same day, PDE released a report, Ministry of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Share x.
Doge then made two major announcements on February 10th: Ed end 29 DEI grants worth $110 million end The contract totals $881 million.
Following this news, the department announced A $600 million cut We went to the DEI training program for teachers on February 17th. Examples of DEI training that were completed included adopting “personal and institutional responsibility for systematic inequality (e.g. racism)” and teaching educators to dismantle so-called racial biases.
Two days later, the department Additional $266 million Originally “grants were intended to improve educational materials and educational outcomes. Instead, the grants were used to promote racist ideas such as “playing that white guy from your shoulder” and telling teachers to explain how schools are a system of “white hegemony.”
His most recent speech To Congress, Trump celebrated the work Doge and Ed achieved by reducing DEI waste, highlighting the elimination of “$101 million in DEI contracts at the Department of Education.”
With the help of Doge, Ed is working quickly to eliminate DEI waste and the political ideology on the far left from the institution, ensuring that our country’s education system will work again for students, not as tools of indoctrination.
PDE continues to proudly function as the leader who identifies and calls government waste to ensure that personnel have the tools they need to eliminate all corruption in our education system.
Casey Ryan is an educational advocate author and investigative reporter for parents.
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