{"id":1520032,"date":"2025-02-19T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1520032"},"modified":"2025-02-19T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T05:15:00","slug":"education-department-cuts-600-million-from-ideological-training-programs-for-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/education-department-cuts-600-million-from-ideological-training-programs-for-teachers\/1520032\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Department Cuts $600 Million From Ideological Training Programs For Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Education Department Cuts $600 Million From Ideological Training Programs For Teachers<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times<\/a> (emphasis ours),<\/em><\/p>\n

The U.S. Education Department on Monday said it has canceled $600 million in grants for educator training programs that promote \u201cdivisive ideologies.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unused desks sit in an empty elementary school classroom at Hazelwood Elementary School in Louisville, Ky., on Jan. 11, 2022. Jon Cherry\/Getty Images<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The grants had been awarded to teacher preparation programs that trained future educators in what the department said were \u201cinappropriate and unnecessary topics,\u201d<\/strong> such as critical race theory,<\/strong> which promotes the fundamental framework view that racism is embedded in all institutions and aspects of society; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI);<\/strong> and social justice activism. Some of the defunded programs also included race-based teacher recruitment and staffing strategies, according to the department.<\/p>\n

The department provided examples<\/a> of the defunded training programs, including those that required educators to acknowledge \u201csystemic inequities\u201d like racism and \u201ccritically reassess\u201d their own teaching practices<\/strong>. Others offered professional development workshops on \u201cBuilding Cultural Competence,\u201d \u201cDismantling Racial Bias,\u201d and \u201cCentering Equity in the Classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some initiatives guided teachers to \u201cinterrupt racial marginalization and oppression of students.\u201d There were also programs promoting an \u201cabolitionist pedagogy\u201d which, according<\/a> to Bettina L. Love, the professor who coined the term, applies a \u201ccritical race lens\u201d to classrooms and encourages teachers to organize marches and boycotts against their colleagues perceived as \u201cracist, homophobic, or Islamophobic.\u201d<\/p>\n

The decision to cut these grants aligns with the broader cost-cutting measures led by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)<\/strong>, an advisory body led by Elon Musk, and with President Donald Trump\u2019s ongoing efforts to dismantle DEI initiatives across the federal government.<\/p>\n

Trump on Jan. 21 signed<\/a> an executive order directing government educational institutions to end all DEI efforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIllegal DEI and DEIA policies not only violate the text and spirit of our longstanding Federal civil-rights laws, they also undermine our national unity, as they deny, discredit, and undermine the traditional American values<\/strong> of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system,\u201d the order read. \u201cThe Federal Government is charged with enforcing our civil-rights laws. The purpose of this order is to ensure that it does so by ending illegal preferences and discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n

A study<\/a> by Parents Defending Education, an independent organization that rallies against ideological indoctrinations in K-12 schools, found that since 2021, the Education Department has spent at least $1 billion on various DEI-related initiatives<\/strong>. That includes approximately $490 million on DEI hiring efforts, $343 million on DEI programming, and $170 million on DEI-related mental health programs.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, the Education Department reaffirmed its stance that DEI initiatives conflict with federal non-discrimination laws. Its civil rights enforcement division warned<\/a> that failure to ensure compliance could result in a loss of federal funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe law is clear:<\/strong> treating students differently on the basis of race to achieve nebulous goals such as diversity, racial balancing, social justice, or equity is illegal under controlling Supreme Court precedent,\u201d Craig Trainor, acting assistant secretary for civil rights, wrote in a letter sent to the education departments in all 50 states.<\/p>\n

While emphasizing the obligations under Title VI, the federal law prohibiting discrimination based on race for institutions that receive federal dollars, the letter also referenced the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s 2023 decision, which found it unconstitutional for public and private colleges to use racial preferences in admissions.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt its core, the test is simple: If an educational institution treats a person of one race differently than it treats another person because of that person\u2019s race, the educational institution violates the law,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 02\/18\/2025 – 19:15<\/span><\/p>\n

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