Washington, D.C. – When Democrats voted to ram through a $1.9 trillion “COVID-19” stimulus package dubbed the “American Rescue Plan,” the American people presumed the money would go to initiatives pertaining to COVID. That presumption was wrong.
In fact, billions that went toward helping schools reopen were used to promote tenets of Critical Race Theory in over a dozen states, according to a new report by Fox News.
The abused fund is called the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER), and one of its uses was to help implement “implicit bias” and “anti-racism” training.
According to Fox:
Applications were due on June 7, 2021, and at least $46.5 billion from the ARP ESSER fund has been allocated to 13 states, including California, New York and Illinois, that are planning to use the funds to implement CRT in their schools.
The California Department of Education was awarded $15.1 billion in ARP ESSER funding to implement its schools reopening plan, which included $1.5 billion for training resources for school staff regarding “high-need topics,” like “implicit bias training.”
The California DoE used funds to “increase educator training and resources” in subjects such as “anti-bias strategies,” “environmental literacy,” “ethnic studies,” and “LGBTQ+ cultural competency,” according to the plan.
[Secretary of Education] Cardona said in November 2021 that he was “excited” to approve California’s plan, and that it laid the “groundwork for the ways in which an unprecedented infusion of federal resources will be used to address the urgent needs of America’s children and build back better.”
The question is: Did Senators Maggie Hassan, Mark Kelly, Raphael Warnock, Catherine Cortez Masto, and Michael Bennet – some of whom serve on committees of jurisdiction – know about these CRT provisions? If so, why did they vote for the plan?
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