Parents Defending Education founder Nicki Neily called the Biden administration’s decision to spend over $1 billion on diversity, equity and inclusion [DEI] programming and training in America’s schools “heartbreaking” and a disservice to America’s students.
“We’re at a time when 40% of American students can’t read, and this is how the Biden-Harris administration chose to fritter away hard-earned American taxpayer dollars. It’s really a slap in the face,” Neily told “Fox & Friends First” on Friday.
Researchers at Parents Defending Education looked through nearly four years of grants awarded by the Biden administration from 2021 to present and found that the Biden administration spent hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity, equity and inclusion grants for students and schools.
According to the report, $489,883,797 was spent on grants for race-based hiring; $343,337,286 went toward general DEI programming; and $169,301,221 went to DEI-based mental health training and programming, totaling $1,002,522,304.81 spent in all.