More documents obtained by congressional investigators reveal more cases of COVID relief funds intended to help students overcome learning loss instead went to left-wing political agendas and woke social causes.
Last year, congressional Democrats unnecessarily rushed more than $120 billion in new Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funding. Congress previously set aside $13.2 billion in the CARES Act and $54.3 billion in the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act for the ESSER Fund,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Republicans report.
“Reports indicate billions of allocated taxpayer dollars are now being used by State Democrat leaders to push left leaning ideologies in public schools rather than to fix the significant academic gaps caused by school closures,” they report.
In one case a Massachusetts school district, COVID relief funds intended for students were used to pay a diversity expert to teach its principal how to use racial slurs.
According to Committee Republicans:
“One particularly bizarre example is from Newburyport, Massachusetts, where the Newburyport Public Schools spent at least $56,800 in ESSER funds to hire a consultant named Michael Eatman.
According to documents obtained by Committee on Oversight and Reform Republicans, Mr. Eatman's services included ‘coaching' a high school principal to use a racial slur in front of other faculty members.
While the use of a racial slur rightfully made some teachers uncomfortable, others, such as an assistant superintendent for curriculum & instruction, stated that its use and the principal's explanatory e-mail memorializing the incident was the ‘perfect message to your staff.'
Other teachers said the use of the slur in front of faculty members was ‘amazing' and ‘model[ed] for all of us what courage and vulnerability look[ed] like in action.'
This is not what federal COVID aid was intended for, but according to information obtained by Committee Republicans, taxpayer dollars paid for this session,” continued the Republican lawmakers. “This activity appears to have nothing to do with COVID-19 mitigation. Moreover, under no circumstances should the American people fund the “coaching” of educators to use racial slurs for any purpose and/or at any time. This is both a waste and a misuse of taxpayer dollars.”
While the documents provide no other information on the consultant, a search for education consultants named Michael Eatman turns up a result for a Massachusetts education consultant with that name who variously describes himself as a “Certified Diversity Professional” and “inclusion strategist.”
While the various websites and profiles include lots of vague buzzwords on “diversity, equity and inclusion,” there is no information on helping students learn to read, write or do math, which is what the federal funds were supposed to be spent on.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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Tic toc, Tic toc, Tic toc… “Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men? It is the music of the people who will not be slave again!” The Red Wave is coming in November to take back the Republic from socialist/communists!
What else is new? This kind of misuse of public funds is at the heart of all of the woke, Marxist, democrat, schemes to destroy the country. Why would they pay for it themselves when they can steal public funds so easily. That’s exactly what it is and these people should go to jail for theft along with those who ok’d the grants they stole from actual deprived students. This must end. Time to take out the trash starting with that demented, moron, Marxist manipulated buffoon, Joe Biden. I would rather cut off my big toe then call him president. Everyone should have puked the day after he was installed to squat in our White House and still should have trouble keeping their hands to themselves whenever they would be in arms reach of that idiot. Past time.
Defund
Just more Demonratic thievery which is common place anymore.
Why would anybody be surprised at this? The democrat ” wokeness” program is spreading and is destroying this republic. If we don’t purge them come November then the fault is our own.
Those leaders who misappropriated funds should be made to pay it back to the taxpayers. When the money was meant to assist students’ loss of learning during the pandemic but used for insignificant alternatives, it is essentially stealing from the taxpayers
Pay it back!!!
Ha ha: TYPICAL!! Once I had a boss from Socialistic Eastern Europe who must have been a card-carrying DemonCrat. This person diverted budget funds into private projects that were unrelated, again and again. And this person wanted to delete wise and protective directives from SOP’s just because the director who initiated them was gone. That is like deleting the Constitution because John Adams and Thomas Jefferson are deceased: ‘let’s abandon principle and go with the prevailing monarch… or dictator.’