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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has uncovered that the Department of Education spent $1 billion in promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs in American schools.

According to DOGE, the education department spent nearly half a billion ($489,883,797) on “race-based hiring,” $343,337,286 on “DEI programming,” and another $169,301,221 on “DEI mental health initiatives.”

DOGE obtained the figures from Parents Defending Education, a non-profit organization claiming to work to “reclaim our schools from activists imposing harmful agendas.”

The organization found that the Department of Education received 229 grants amounting to $1,002,522,304.81 between 2021 and 2024. The DEI programs funded affected 6,766,158 K-12 grade students in 296 school districts. 

Parents Defending Education says the data was compiled from various available sources and thus, the scope of the programs and the final amount might be significantly higher than reported. Nonetheless, it highlights the blatant waste of taxpayers’ money to indoctrinate the youth while American schools grapple with cash shortages to fund academically significant programs.

Notably, approximately $4 million of the grant money was used to organize  a “3-week residential ‘culturally responsive’ computer science summer camp for 600 11th and 12th graders.”

Other notable DEI expenditures include the University of Iowa spending $1,261,718 of the grant money to train 40 elementary teachers to “enact equity-centered education” in partner K-12 districts.

The University of Missouri – St. Louis also spent $306,209 of the grant money to train school counselors in Trauma-Informed, Antiracist Social-Emotional Learning (TIAR-SEL).

Similarly, the School District of Philadelphia received $3,973,175 of the grant money to fund its “restorative justice” program, which mirrors California’s Oakland Unified School District’s (OUSD) and Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY) programs. 

It also lists Fania Davis, a social justice activist and Civil Rights trial attorney. Her sister Angela, who she helped free for alleged conspiracy, murder, and kidnapping, was a long-time Communist Party USA (CPUSA) member and was a keynote speaker in an anti-police event and praised Fidel Castro. Fania also helped co-author the OUSD restorative justice program guide, which includes topics such as “Exploring White Privilege.” 

According to available data, the School District of Philadelphia’s restorative justice program targets 40,000 K-12 students in 72 schools, whose personal/family circumstances were impacted by “structural racism, and/or economic inequity.”

A Michigan school district also spent $19,500 to hire an “equity consultant” for a one-day “keynote address” and another $19,250 to buy their books.

Montgomery County Schools also received $21,508,841  toward its Teacher and Principal Effectiveness Acceleration in Montgomery (TEAM) program. Some of the money allocated to the program could go towards training to “build teachers and school leaders’ ability to support diverse students through equitable instructional and disciplinary practices.”

Similarly, it could also support the School District’s “Diversity and Inclusion Plan,” which includes race-based Teacher Affinity Groups (TAG) for “Black and Hispanic teachers who meet monthly to discuss mutual concerns and provide support for one another.”