Top House Republicans launched an investigation Wednesday into whether the Department of Education allowed schools to use federal COVID-19 relief funds to try and push critical race theory on kids.…
The probe is looking to determine if states — including New York, California and Illinois — put the pandemic federal funds towards “radical curricula to indoctrinate America’s students.”
“Republicans are investigating the use of COVID-19 relief dollars appropriated for virus mitigation and the safe reopening of schools,” the GOP lawmakers“Based on recent reports, the Department of Education is allowing Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act and related COVID relief funds to pay for racially biased and other progressive leftist programs.”
House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer and and Education and Labor Committee ranking member Virginia Foxx are leading the investigation.AP/Susan WalshThe lawmakers said the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief fund was created to help schools safely reopen amid the pandemic and address learning loss caused by COVID lockdowns.
But they claim the funds are instead “being used to indoctrinate children in core tenets of leftist ideology.”, $122 billion was set aside last year for the ESSER fund. It was in addition to $67.5 billion the Trump administration put toward the fund in 2020 under two separate relief packages.
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