President Joe Biden’s Department of Education spent over a billion dollars in the past four years on grants to local school districts for hiring, programming, and training, all designed to promote the Left’s toxic and divisive diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology. President-elect Donald Trump’s new education secretary, Linda McMahon, should turn off the spigot on Day One.
According to a new report from the parental rights advocacy group Parents Defending Education, the grants went to a range of areas in education and were disbursed to K-12 schools and postsecondary schools alike. To fund hiring initiatives based on DEI, $489 million was given, while $343 million was spent on DEI programs that included training and activism, and an additional $169 million was granted to school districts to pay for DEI-centered mental health programs.
On an individual level, the grants…
