A bombshell report using research compiled by One Nation shows that over $46 billion of American Rescue Plan funds have been allocated to implement critical race theory into the school curriculum of 13 states.
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According to the research compiled by One Nation, 13 states are currently using ARP funds under the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) – billed as a fund to help schools safely reopen after the pandemic – to instead introduce CRT into local schools. The states are as follows:
- California: $15.1 billion
- New York: $9 billion
- Illinois: $5.1 billion
- Michigan: $3.7 billion
- New Jersey: $2.8 billion
- Virginia: $2.1 billion
- Washington: $1.9 billion
- Massachusetts: $1.8 billion
- Minnesota: $1.3 billion
- Connecticut: $1.1 billion
- Nevada: $1.1 billion
- Oregon: $1.1 billion
- Rhode Island: $415.1 million
In an August 2021 report, President Biden’s Department of Education encouraged state and local school authorities to address the “reasons families of color have cited for not returning to in-person learning,” such as “fears of xenophobic and racist harassment” and to “implement strategies designed for systemic change at the local and school level.”
The California Department of Education’s ESSER application included the use of funds to “increase educator training and resources” in subjects such as “anti-bias strategies,” “environmental literacy,” “ethnic studies,” and “LGBTQ+ cultural competency.”
The New York application allowed its Civic Readiness Taskforce to provide “staff development on topics such as culturally responsive sustaining instruction and student support practices, privilege, implicit bias, and reactions in times of stress.” The approved plan also recommended that schools use social-emotional learning [SEL] to “support the work of anti-racism and anti-bias.”
The Illinois plan stressed “an emphasis on equity and diversity.” “The plan provided school districts with training on topics like ‘anti-racism’ and equity, and allocated a percentage of funds to create a statewide coalition to help school districts offer grants for projects addressing ‘issues pertaining to interrupted learning and support groups that were disproportionately impacted by the pandemic (e.g., homeless, LGBQT [sic], marginalized communities).'”
Congressional liberals billed passage of the ARP as “quite literally a matter of life and death,” according to Senator Raphael Warnock. However, recent reporting by the Associated Press and other outlets has demonstrated the ARP is rife with waste, including billions for luxury hotels, ski slopes, and ballpark renovations. This latest report further characterizes the ARP as a boondoggle packed full with ideological wish list items that have little or nothing to do with fighting the pandemic.
“It turns out President Biden’s so-called American Rescue Plan was a multitrillion-dollar progressive shopping list, a massive bait-and-switch for life-saving COVID aid. Indoctrinating children to judge themselves and one another based on the color of their skin is wrong and has nothing to do with fighting COVID or getting our economy back on track.” -One Nation President Steven Law