Pandemic relief money went toward drag shows and critical race theory
by Sarah Bedford, Investigative Reporter |
June 07, 2023 06:00 AM
Some pandemic relief money has funded controversial liberal priorities that far fall outside the bounds of what most would consider COVID-19 recovery.
The latest example occurred last week in New Hampshire, where a school district near Manchester used COVID-19 relief funding to pay for a Pride event that was scheduled to include drag performances for children.
But across the country, local and federal officials have poured money that lawmakers insisted was necessary to prevent an economic disaster into projects that are wasteful, ineffective, or, in many cases, fronts in the culture wars.
The New Hampshire school used $4,000 in American Rescue Plan Act money to fund the Pride event, according to the NH Journal.
In Utah, state education officials used pandemic funding to produce a video that encouraged teachers to introduce “gender play” and explorations of gender identities to their classrooms. The video sparked outrage among parents and other state officials when its contents, as well as the fact that CARES Act funding paid for it, surfaced in February.
Some schools have used pandemic funding to build gender-neutral bathrooms to accommodate transgender students, such as a middle school in Maine that planned to use $32,000 of American Rescue Plan Act money for gender-neutral bathrooms and another Maine school that planned to use some of the $161,000 in funding it got from the American Rescue Plan Act for gender-neutral bathrooms.
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