(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden’s budget proposal seeks to set aside billions of dollars to push progressive gender, sexuality and race ideology at home and around the globe.
Released this week, the $7.3 trillion budget also proposes spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to train school teachers in diversity, equity, and inclusion dogma.
The White House touted the spending in its announcement of Biden’s budget, which includes $3 billion to “advance gender equity and equality worldwide.”
Funding for domestic projects of the same kind are robust as well though, including for public education to “improve the diversity of the teacher pipeline.”
In fact, Biden’s budget prioritizes training a new generation of teachers who embrace progressive ideology on race, gender, and sexuality.
For example, the budget includes $30 million to increase the number of teachers who go through the Hawkins Centers of Excellence, a federal effort that sets up programs to trains teachers in inclusivity on race, gender and sexuality.
Those training programs must be set up at minority-focused colleges such as historically black colleges and universities or colleges focused on serving Native Americans or Hispanics.
Once established, the taxpayer-funded program must “examine the sources of inequity and inadequacy in resources and opportunity and implement pedagogical practices in teacher preparation programs that are inclusive with regard to race, ethnicity, culture, language, and disability status and that prepare teachers to create inclusive, supportive, equitable, unbiased, and identity-safe learning environments for their students.”
In another similar funding item, the budget sets aside $95 million for the Teacher Quality Partnership Program, another federal effort that administers grants for training teachers.
According to the Federal Register, this grant program prioritizes teachers of color over white teachers in order to “create inclusive, supportive, equitable, unbiased, and identity-safe learning environments for their students.”
“The Department recognizes that diverse educators will play a critical role in ensuring equity in our education system,” the agency said.
The program also prioritizes grant applicants who can help create a “positive, inclusive, and identity-safe climate” for gay, lesbian, transgender and minority students.
In response to The Center Square’s reporting, Republicans took aim at Biden’s budget.
“President Biden’s reckless and radical budget adds $18 trillion dollars to the debt including billions of dollars for divisive DEI programs,” U.S. Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., who leads the House Freedom Caucus, told The Center Square. “As his partisan State of the Union speech previewed, President Biden is borrowing more money we don’t have to pay for things we don’t need in order to pander to the Democrat base.”
In yet another similar funding item, the budget puts $90 million toward the “Supporting Effective Education Development Program,” which has given away tens of millions of dollars in recent years for similar efforts.
In one example, the program awarded $662,744 to the University of North Georgia to train teachers in “social and emotional wellbeing; trauma-informed pedagogies; and diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
“Our expected outcomes are that 30 new teachers will be certified, and 84 induction-level teachers will add two endorsements to their certifications,” the group said in its research abstract.
The funding proposals for teachers are relevant because critics of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Critical Race Theory teachings and trainings in public education have been brushed off by defenders, who say it is not present in K-12 schools.
“President Biden has his priorities completely backward, and hardworking Tennesseans will not stand for another tax-and-spend boondoggle,” U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., told The Center Square. “This unserious budget – the largest proposed in U.S. history – includes $3 billion for the Green Climate Fund to help ‘prioritize climate change’ and millions for programs that promote DEI.”
The national debt is currently over $34 trillion and would rise to $45 billion by 2034 under Biden’s budget.
As The Center Square previously reported, the budget includes several tax increases, including a 25% minimum tax on billionaires, as well as ramping up audits on Americans to increase IRS collection.
Another reason the Federal Department of Education (Indoctrination) should be disbanded and all education remain under LOCAL control. Before the feds got their hands of our educational system and unions were formed to keep democrats in power and the money rolling in, we used to have hundreds of state experimental labs of creative individual thought, and self-governing people of production too proud to take a handout and become the mental and moral slaves of a “Big Guy”, or “big Brother” mentality. Our civilization and mutual civility grew by leaps and bounds and only those too timid, too lazy, or too corrupt took their hard earned place at the bottom of a society of seekers of excellence, now replaced and educated to be the lowest form of social dependency and entitlement, shamed into a land of equal distribution of the poverty of their socialist ideas, and the bankruptcy of a debt ridden nation of political parasites, feeding off the future generations on borrowed money, choking national debt, who create nothing but division, who can only exist by feeding off the life force of a dwindling defeated class of fellow others who just want to be left alone and live in their own peace and individual created but untouched prosperity. Had Lincoln been educated in our current federal funded system our society would all still be living in Lincoln log cabins, and half the country their slaves.
ALL education ,should be at state level..
Biden’s budget prioritizes training a new generation of teachers who embrace progressive ideology on race, gender, and sexuality.
For example, the budget includes $30 million to increase the number of teachers who go through the Hawkins Centers of Excellence, a federal effort that sets up programs to trains teachers in inclusivity on race, gender and sexuality.
CommieCrats continue to play 4th dimensional chess, while Republicans are still trying to understand checkers.
In other words, you can not score if you are always on defense.
Progressive ideology on race, gender, sexuality, gender equity and equality is not 4th dimensional chess.
It is a immoral degrading philosophy to render everybody into robots that have no individual character or soul. Just blind obedience to their masters.
I agree with patriot in that we need to STOP playing Defense.
Going to be difficult to change history. Even if Mr. Trump wins, with the hidden “hook” being what it is, it’s going to be really difficult to change history.