Ed Department cuts $600M in taxpayer-funded grants pushing 'divisive ideologies'
Many of the grants included teacher recruiting strategies that were 'implicitly and explicitly based on race,' the Education Department says
By Aubrie Spady Fox News
Published February 18, 2025 11:14am EST
The Department of Education (DOED) is pulling the plug on the use of taxpayer dollars to fund "divisive" and "inappropriate" training programs for educators, announcing hundreds of millions in cuts as the Trump administration cleans house on "wasteful" spending within the federal government.
On Monday, the DOED announced the cancelation of $600 million dollars in grants funding programs that teach educators "divisive ideologies" such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and the "instruction on White privilege and White supremacy."
The latest spending cut comes just days after the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk to cut government spending, announced the slashing of over $370 million in DEI training programs from the Education Department.
The grants that were terminated included funding for training programs "requiring practitioners to take personal and institutional responsibility for systemic inequities (e.g., racism) and critically reassess their own practices," according to the DOED.
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