Today, the U.S. Department of Education cancelled 18 grants totaling $226 million that were awarded under the Comprehensive Centers Program. These grants went to a network of regional and national centers funded to provide scalable “capacity-building” services to states and systems within their regions, including reports and convenings to improve instructional materials and educational outcomes. Instead, Comprehensive Centers have been forcing radical agendas onto states and systems, including race-based discrimination and gender identity ideology.
Examples uncovered include:
- A video instructing teachers to "flick that white man off your shoulder" in order to resist the "settler patriarchy" and the "white gaze";
- A research paper claiming that there are too many "white students" in STEM;
- A recorded lecture about how America's schools are a system of "settler-colonial realities" and "white supremacy”; and
- A joint video call instructing teachers to "move away from the [sex] binary" and to "use non-heteronormative language."