Kendall Tietz, DCNF
President Joe Biden administration’s newly proposed $5.8 trillion federal budget includes massive spending increases for the Department of Education to promote “racial” diversity.
The new education allocations for fiscal year 2023 include “$100 million for a new Fostering Diverse Schools program” which will use grants to help communities “develop and implement strategies that will build more racially and socioeconomically diverse schools and classrooms, ” according to the Department of Education’s (DOE) budget summary.
The program is part of an attempt to “address the well-documented, persistent negative effects of racial isolation and concentrated poverty” through “efforts to increase school racial and socioeconomic diversity in preschool through grade 12.”
As part of the initiative, the federal government will partner with state educational agencies “that have significant achievement gaps and racial or socioeconomic segregation within or across districts.”
Federal budgets are an expression of values. This proposal reflects the Biden-Harris Administration’s deep belief in the importance of education & the success of our students. https://t.co/QbqMwIAyFx pic.twitter.com/LtEYQrJGlo
— Secretary Miguel Cardona (@SecCardona) March 28, 2022
President and Founder of Parents Defending Education Nicole Neily said the new budget’s focus on equity and diversity is sowing distrust between families and schools by prioritizing “everything but student learning.”
“The White House’s 2023 education budget is a betrayal of American families who expect schools to educate children in the basics and keep students safe … why not encourage and fund programs to address the learning loss plaguing the American education system?” she said in the statement. “Student proficiency in reading, writing, and mathematics are at abysmal levels in the wake of the pandemic – and even prior to that, were devastatingly low.”
Another budget item allocates $1 billion for a “School-Based Health Professionals program” to support the mental health needs of students and their families “by increasing the number of counselors, nurses, and health professionals in our schools, and building the pipeline for these critical staff, with an emphasis on schools serving underserved students.”
School counselors have been criticized for using mental health initiatives to push what critics decry as the tenets of Critical Race Theory (CRT), including “social and emotional learning screeners,” “anti-racism practices” and “equity initiatives,” the Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported.
CRT holds that America is fundamentally racist, yet it teaches people to view every social interaction and person in terms of race. Its adherents pursue “antiracism” through the end of merit, objective truth and the adoption of race-based policies.
“They [educators] are increasingly prioritizing their activist agenda over the actual care of the majority of children,” PDE Vice President of Strategy and Investigations Asra Nomani said in a previous statement.
“In some cases, addressing behavioral issues has become the entry point for controversial ‘restorative justice’ programs that too often leave victims vulnerable and perpetrators free from accountability, in the name of ‘equity,’” she said. “With students today suffering significant learning loss and serious brain health issues, we need to ditch the activism and focus on academics and the overall wellbeing of students.”
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The last federal budget passed under regular order was signed into law in September of 2007 for fiscal year 2008. Everything after that has been a series of continuing resolutions, omnibus spending, baselQ ine budget expansions and debt ceiling increases. There has never been a full budget process worked through in the past 14 years. 2008 FEDERAL DEBT – $8 TRILLION – TODAY $30 Trillion
THIS BUDGET AND ALL ITS HORRIBLE IDEAS ARE DOA
“significant achievement gaps” — wonder WHO caused that to happen?? If they used that $100 MILLION on BIG ARMED MEN AND WOMEN who were EQUIPPED WITH WOODEN PADDLES and the AUTHORITY to USE THEM then I’d say “yeah”! Throwing ANOTHER $100 MILLION at the RESULTS of DEMOCRAT POLICIES is just as STUPID as the POLICIES!
The Department of Education needs to be eliminated. Our tax dollars are being sent to Washington. Some of it goes to a bureaucrat who spends some to remain in office and pockets a large handful. Some is spent on offices and equipment. Eventually, the government will return some to us but only if we spend it as we are told.
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That money would be far better spent teaching kids how to read and do math. Nothing worse than a reformed segregationist, who is still a racist. China Joe needs to go. FJB
Racial diversity in schools? Its been that way since the early 60s. Thats a lot of why the students have a hard time reading and writing. Black parents need to teach their children to keep their mouths shut in class so that the rest of the class can hear what the teacher is saying. Unruly moronic brats who dont know how to behave should be suspended. If they cant act like respectable humans then why try to teach them. Obviously their parents dont give a crap about them. They dont even care about themselves. Thats why they wear their pants down by their ankles.
The government needs to stay the hell out of our schools
The feds are supposed to defend and protect the citizens and BORDERS of the U.S., regulate interstate commerce, handle foreign policy and that’s all! They have spread like a cancer into every part of our lives. Revolution is necessary to burn into the brains of every elected official, regardless of their office or party, local, state and especially the feds, that they are public SERVANTS, not our masters. If extremely nasty things have to be done to achieve that, so be it. Thomas Jefferson: “What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with THE BLOOD OF TYRANTS AND PATRIOTS.”