The Department of Education in a two-day operation ended 70 diversity, equity, and inclusion grants totaling $373 million, according to President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.
“In the last 48 hours, the Department of Education terminated 70 DEI training grants totaling $373M,” DOGE wrote Friday in a post on X, which is owned by Elon Musk, tasked by Trump to lead DOGE. “One trained teachers to ‘engage in ongoing learning and self-reflection to confront their own biases and racism and develop asset-based anti-racist mindsets.'”
DOGE has canceled several streams of DEI funding in education, including $9.7 million for the University of California at Berkeley to develop “a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills,” according to the New York Post.
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