President Donald Trump’s Department of Education (DOE) has just slashed a staggering $600 million in taxpayer-funded grants pushing “divisive ideologies.”
In a statement, the Education Department revealed that many of the grants included teacher recruiting strategies that were “implicitly and explicitly based on race.”
The “divisive” and “inappropriate” training programs for educators were slashed among hundreds of millions in cuts at the DOE.
The DOE pulled the plug on the grants as the Trump administration continues to clean house on “wasteful” spending and abuse of taxpayer funds within the federal government.
The Education Department revealed that the grants were 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 Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced the elimination of over $370 million in DEI training programs from the Education Department.
According to the DOE, 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.”
Funding was also slashed for a program that provided “spaces for critical reflection to help educators confront biases and have transformative conversations about equity.”
Another program that got the chop worked on “building historical and sociopolitical understandings of race and racism to interrupt racial marginalization and oppression of students in planning, instruction, relationship building, discipline, and assessment.”
News of the latest cuts has been praised on social media.
In a post on X, Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice said:
“Less money on DEI nonsense means more money to make sure teachers know how to teach students to read! #MakeAmericaLiterateAgain.”
The move also received applause from Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Foxx expressed her support on social media.
According to the DOE, many of the grants also included teacher and staff recruiting strategies that were “implicitly and explicitly based on race.”
Chris Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, said of the announcement:
“The Department of Education has canceled $600 million in ‘teacher training grants,’ which do little more than promote left-wing race and gender ideologies.
“It’s time to shut it all down.”
President Trump’s administration has made axing DEI programs in education a focal point of their efforts to reform the department.
Trump ordered all 50 state education departments last week to remove DEI policies within 14 days or risk losing federal funding.
The president has signaled his intention to eventually abolish the federal Education Department during his term.
The move would allow individual states to make decisions about their own education departments.
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