Education Department Slashes $600M for ‘Divisive’ Teacher Training Grants

US Department of Education (DOE) announcement On Monday, it closed $600 million grants for teacher training programs, including “dismantling racial bias” and “central classroom equity.”

The cancelled grants were sent to institutions and nonprofits that use taxpayer funds to “train teachers and educational institutions' division ideology.” Some of the training materials are on far-left topics such as Critical Race Theory, Day (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion), Social Justice Activism, “anti-racism,” and Leading on White Privilege and White Hegemony. did.

“In addition, many of these grants had implicitly and explicitly adopted teacher and staff recruitment strategies based on race,” the DOE said.

One example of a grant application requires “being personally and institutional responsibility for systemic inequality” such as racism and “critical reevaluating one's practices.” I've requested it. The other was for professional development workshops and equity training on topics such as “building cultural competency,” “dismantling racial bias,” and “central fairness in the classroom.”

Other examples provided by DOE include applications that correspond to “systematic forms of suppression.” The first is to provide “culturally related correspondent abolitionist pedagogy and classroom management diversity issues,” and to “provide spaces,” to support teachers, “facing bias,” and “equity.” Have a transformative conversation about it.”

“It's difficult to exaggerate how radical these teachers' training is. We force teachers to talk about race in the workplace and educators to “individuals against systematic inequality.” They call for “bearing troubling and institutional responsibility,” and talk about promoting abolitionist educational practices and defining equality as an equal outcome. ,” Parent Outreach Director (PDE) Erika Sanji responded in a statement.