{"id":1330706,"date":"2022-02-23T07:27:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T12:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1330706"},"modified":"2022-02-23T07:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T12:38:46","slug":"department-of-education-awards-taxpayer-dollars-to-program-training-teachers-in-critical-race-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/department-of-education-awards-taxpayer-dollars-to-program-training-teachers-in-critical-race-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Education Awards Taxpayer Dollars to Program Training Teachers in Critical Race Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdepartment-of-education-awards-taxpayer-dollars-to-program-training-teachers-in-critical-race-theory%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1330706&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2021-07\/Critical%20Race%20Theory%20protest%20GettyImages-1233450533.jpg?h=590714a4&#038;itok=zwLd0Ft7\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Newly uncovered federal grant documents show that the U.S. Department of Education has awarded roughly $2.5 million in taxpayer dollars to a Florida-based education program that trains education future teachers in, among other things, critical race theory.<\/p>\n<p>The funding came through two grants, one in <a href=\"https:\/\/ies.ed.gov\/ncer\/projects\/grant.asp?ProgID=95&#038;grantid=1980&#038;NameID=38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017<\/a> and another in <a href=\"https:\/\/ies.ed.gov\/funding\/grantsearch\/details.asp?ID=4635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021<\/a>. Both grants went to faculty at Florida State University, which has partnered with Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.<\/p>\n<p>Grant documents from the federal Institute for Education Sciences database show that the DOE awarded $1,020,800 in the first grant and $1,498,620 in the second grant. The program offers participants 1-year fellowships.<\/p>\n<p>The program in question is called Partners United for Research Pathways Oriented to Social Justice in Education (PURPOSE).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PURPOSE training program&#8217;s P\u201320 theme focuses on researching social justice issues within educational contexts,\u201d the grant says. \u201cThroughout the year fellows will participate in proseminars, within which they will learn about social justice issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those proseminars include teaching and training on critical race theory.<\/p>\n<p>From Purpose\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/purposetraining.org\/2018\/01\/14\/global-education3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The theme of the PURPOSE program is, \u201cSocial Justice: Using Research to Address Inequities in Education.\u201d Students from FSU and FAMU will have opportunities to develop their own research projects during the yearlong fellowship by engaging research problems targeting educational injustices. One of our program outcomes is a value for participating in the process of social justice, with the ultimate goal of ensuring that all groups of people can fully participate in a society that meets their needs, beginning with an equitable education.<\/p>\n<p>In the spring and summer semesters, fellows will participate in proseminars that focus on social justice topics including culturally relevant pedagogy and research design, tools for analyzing oppression, critical race theory, multicultural leadership, and tools for social change and action, which are led both by PURPOSE mentors and guest speakers from both institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Alysia Roehrig, a professor of Educational Psychology at FSU who is listed as the \u201cprincipal investigator\u201d for the 2017 grant, acknowledged that critical race theory is taught in the taxpayer-funded program. She defended PURPOSE, saying it focuses on training education researchers, not teachers, though some of the fellows do go on to be teachers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe purpose of our project is to train minoritized students in education research methods so that they may obtain a PhD and perhaps become university professors,\u201d Roehrig said. \u201cWe talk about CRT as one of many frameworks that can be used in conducting research with minoritized populations to address social justice issues in education. It is important to spend federal research money on understanding social justice issues because those from racially minoritized populations (who also pay taxes) are underrepresented in the education sciences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roehrig also said it is important to inform teachers about \u201cstructural racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout diverse perspectives in the field, it is very difficult to address research questions and issues that are relevant to our diverse U.S. population, or to overcome the pipeline problem (increasing the representation of minoritized students in graduate school and university faculty),\u201d Roehrig said. \u201cCRT has been taught in universities for a while (typically at the grad not undergrad level), but I think it has not been taught or used in K-12 schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeaching young children directly about the theory does not seem developmentally appropriate to me, but the theory can inform their teachers about structural racism and hopefully reduce deficit thinking about their students,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The principal investigator faculty member at FSU for the 2021 grant, Jeannine Turner, did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The office of U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., responded to a press inquiry on the program, calling it \u201cinherently racist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, Senator Scott introduced a resolution condemning the use of Critical Race Theory in K-12 schools and teacher training, and he believes any taxpayer dollars spent to push the far-left\u2019s narrative that America is inherently racist and evil in our classrooms, from Pre-K through higher education, is a gross and unacceptable misuse,\u201d Scott\u2019s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Other critics also attacked PURPOSE, saying it rebuffs Democrats\u2019 argument that CRT is not an issue in K-12 education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is another example of how critical race theory \u2013 by name \u2013 finds its way into K-12 schools,\u201d said Jonathan Butcher, an education expert at the Heritage Foundation. \u201cThese programs train graduate students to apply critical race theory\u2019s discriminatory concepts to classroom teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The grant falls under the federal \u201cPathways to the Education Sciences Research Training Program.\u201d The Pathways program\u2019s website says it seeks to \u201cincrease the number of fellows from groups underrepresented in doctoral study including racial and ethnic minorities, first-generation college students, economically disadvantaged students, veterans, and students with disabilities and provide greater diversity in the types of institutions that provide IES-funded research training.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That research training, though, often includes controversial critical race theory curriculum, training educators who then go on to teach at all levels of secondary and higher education. The federal program has not just pushed CRT in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The Center Square previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/federal-taxpayers-pay-millions-to-fund-critical-race-theory-program-that-trains-students-to-promote\/article_8c5258a4-472b-11ec-9d55-bb1f7891a1a5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that the DOE awarded millions of dollars to a North Carolina based program that trains future educators in critical race theory.<\/p>\n<p>In two federal grants, North Carolina Central University (NCCU) received more than $2.6 million for training college students in critical race theory. That program is named \u201cThe Research Institute for Scholars of Equity,&#8221; or RISE. As part of the taxpayer-funded program, students receive a travel allowance, a $5,000 stipend, and money for housing and food. According to the program\u2019s promotional materials and grant documents, RISE students are taught to use critical race theory as a framework by which to evaluate teacher quality, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>News of that program sparked controversy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCritical Race Theory is inherently bigoted and it is a lie,\u201d U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said in response to news about that grant funding. \u201cThe federal government should not be funding the training for a Marxist ideology that teaches people to hate America. That\u2019s why I introduced legislation earlier this year to block federal funding for CRT.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly uncovered federal grant documents show that the U.S. Department of Education has awarded roughly $2.5 million in taxpayer dollars to a Florida-based education program that trains education future teachers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}