The Gateway Pundit reported that President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum to all federally funded educational institutions to eliminate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs within 14 days, or face the complete withdrawal of federal funding.
Following the ultimatum, woke programming at the U.S. Department of Education is finally starting to be cut.
On Thursday, investigative reporter Chris Rufo shared “a trove of insane videos, slides and documents from the Department of Education. The whole department functions like a Ponzi scheme for left-wing ideologies” on X.
EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Education granted $8 million to this left-wing NGO, which promotes the idea that America is a white supremacist society and demands that you must “disrupt your whiteness.”
This NGO is responsible for advising 7,000 school districts in the Midwest. pic.twitter.com/GFK7YeV967
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 13, 2025
In 2023, the Department of Education partnered with “Welcoming Schools,” an NGO program that teaches elementary school children that they might be “pansexual,” use “they/them” pronouns, and imitate “non-binary animals.”
“There are many ways to be a girl, boy, both, or neither.” pic.twitter.com/LzlwI0B91M
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 13, 2025
The Department of Education funded this resource for teachers, which argues that black children must start “decolonizing the mind” from whiteness, capitalism, and individualism. White people, especially “anti-woke” whites, do not have “permission to accuse BIPOC of being racist.” pic.twitter.com/eFV6zz3ERg
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) February 13, 2025
On Friday, The U.S. Department of Education announced $350 million in cuts:
Today, the U.S. Department of Education canceled over $350 million in contracts and grants to several Regional Educational Laboratories and Equity Assistance Centers.
The Department terminated 10 contracts totaling $336 million with the Regional Educational Laboratories, the purpose of which are supposed to support applied research, development, and technical assistance activities; however, review of the contracts uncovered wasteful and ideologically driven spending not in the interest of students and taxpayers. For example, the Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest has been advising schools in Ohio to undertake “equity audits” and equity conversations. The Department plans to enter into new contracts that will satisfy the statutory requirements, improve student learning, and better serve school districts, State Departments of Education, and other education stakeholders.
The Department also terminated grants to four Equity Assistance Centers totaling $33 million, which supported divisive training in DEI, Critical Race Theory, and gender identity for state and local education agencies as well as school boards.
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) shares, “The nation’s 10 Regional Educational Laboratories partner with educators and policymakers nationwide. REL work is change-oriented, supporting meaningful local, regional, or state decisions about education policies, programs, and practices designed to improve learner outcome.”
“RELs collaborate with state departments of education, school district leaders and classroom educators, and other education stakeholders to address their most pressing problems of education policy and practice. Our work includes high-quality applied research; training, coaching, and technical support to educators and policymakers; and sharing information about “what works” to improve learner outcomes.”
While IES claims to be “research-based, neutral, fair, and non-partisan,” their preferred orthodoxy suggests otherwise.
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What does this have to do with the Department of Education?Well, the United States Department of Education as a research arm called the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). The IES is supposed to be research based, neutral, fair, and non-partisan.
However…. pic.twitter.com/7MNWHUyZjv
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) November 18, 2024
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The IES is encouraging educators to use the Gloria Ladsen-Billings Marxist infused “Cultural Responsive Pedagogy.”Remember, Billings wants students to adopt the marxists opppressor/oppressed framework and gain the “Critical Consciousness” of how oppressed they are. pic.twitter.com/DTW8FaV6ZS
— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) November 18, 2024
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Further, the REL (Regional Educational Libraries) that are run by the IES (which is run by the Department of education) are similarly telling educators to make use of these Marxist Theories of education. pic.twitter.com/z3wLjbI5Sg— Wokal Distance (@wokal_distance) November 18, 2024
