Fox News: DOGE puts DEI on chopping block with termination of over $370M in education department grants

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DOGE puts DEI on chopping block with termination of over $370M in education department grants

The Department of Government Efficiency revealed it slashed $370 million of spending toward diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Department of Education.......                    ...                        ...In just 48 hours, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) slashed a whopping $370 million in taxpayer dollars being spent on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login.......DOGE, the newly formed department led by You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to purge spending by the federal government, revealed in a post on X that they terminated 70 DEI training grants within the department.......According to DOGE, the grants totaled $373 million.......One grant was reportedly funding training for teachers to "engage in ongoing learning and self-reflection to confront their own biases and racism, and develop asset-based anti-racist mindsets," the cost-cutting department said.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Over the past several weeks, DOGE has announced the canceling of various streams of funding to DEI in education, including $9.7 million for UC Berkeley to develop "a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......The latest spending sweep comes just days after DOGE announced the termination of another 89 DOE contracts totaling $881 million, which included more than You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. ......"Hurrah" Heather Higgins, CEO of Independent Women's Voice, wrote in a post on X in response to the latest DOGE cuts.......The Education Department has been cracking down on DEI practices in education, ordering all 50 state education departments last week to remove DEI policies within 14 days or risk losing federal funding.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login said the "overt and covert racial discrimination that has become widespread in this nation's educational institutions" will no longer be tolerated.......Fox News' Landon Mion contributed to this report....

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