Trump admin cancels another $350M in contracts as it targets DEI initiatives

IN Department of Education Last week, he said he canceled almost $ 350 million “awakened” spending, allegedly resolving the most important problems of educational policy and practice.

The Agency has canceled 10 contracts with regional educational laboratories (REL), totaling $ 336 million, after reviewing the contracts revealed “wasteful and ideologically guided spending, not in the interests of students and taxpayers,” the statement said.

It is not clear if the cuts were associated with Government Efficiency Department Reducing the activities of the Department of Education regarding Dei.

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Rels has been around for almost 60 years, according to the Institute of Educational Sciences, which manages 10 residents throughout the country, which are divided by the region.

Programs “contribute to the growing research of research on how experiences within the national education system differ in the context and the student group, which affects the outcomes and identifying potential solutions,” the IES site states.

However, the review has determined cases in which Dei initiatives are funded, the Ministry of Education said.

“For example, regional educational laboratory Midwest advised schools in Ohi to take” capital audits “and” Capital talks, “the Agency said.” The Department plans to conclude new contracts that will meet legal requirements, improve students’ teaching and better serve the school districts, state departments for education and other stakeholders of education. “

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They also abolished $ 33 million in grants for four Capital Assistance Centers, which supported the training from Dei, the theory of a critical race and gender identity for the state and local educational agencies, as well as the school committees, the education department announced.

On Monday, the department announced the abolition of more than $ 600 million in grants to institutions and non -profit organizations that used the funds of taxpayers to train teachers and educational agencies on the alleged division of ideology.

“Training materials included inappropriate and unnecessary topics such as a theory of critical race; diversity, equality and inclusion (dei); activism of social justice;” Antirassism “and the instructions on the privilege of white and white superhumans,” the statement said. “In addition, many of these supports included employment strategies of teachers and staff implicitly and explicitly based on race.”

President Donald Trump He said he wanted to abolish the education department, calling it a “job” that failed to properly educate American students.

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“Oh, I’d like to close himself immediately. Look at the education department. It’s a big job,” he said last week. “They ranked the best countries in the world. We have taken 40 years, but we are first in one ward: a student cost.”

“So we spend more on a student than any other country in the world, but we are ranked for 40 years,” he added.