President Biden’s Department of Education has shelled out at least $1 billion on various diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives since 2021, according to a new report.
Researchers unearthed some $490 million on DEI hiring efforts, $343 million on DEI programming and $170 million on DEI-related mental health, according to a study from Parents Defending Education (PDE), a conservative organization that rallies against what it deems “harmful agendas” in the classroom.
Analysts at PDE combed through troves of public data detailing the grants doled out by the department, which sported a $238 billion budget in fiscal year 2024.
“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,” PDE researcher Rhyen Staley told Fox News, which first covered the report.
“This needs to change by placing children’s learning at the forefront of education, instead of prioritizing race-based policies and DEI.”
DEI, like Affirmative Action before it, provides for unqualified individuals to be placed in positions of responsibility / authority without the requisite experience and/or qualifications simply based on a non-related attribute like race/gender/…
What a waste of resources to make liberals feel better and buy votes!
It shows. Look at the administrators we have and the students test scores.