{"id":1492654,"date":"2022-05-26T08:14:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T12:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1492654"},"modified":"2022-05-26T09:15:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T13:15:27","slug":"meet-the-billionaires-club-pumping-critical-race-theory-into-your-childs-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-billionaires-club-pumping-critical-race-theory-into-your-childs-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The Billionaires\u2019 Club Pumping Critical Race Theory Into Your Child\u2019s Classroom"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fmeet-the-billionaires-club-pumping-critical-race-theory-into-your-childs-classroom%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=1492654&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\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/piqsels.com-id-svsyf-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A decade ago, when an Obama-era initiative called \u201cCommon Core\u201d convinced 41 states to give up control of their education standards, it was infamously the result of a massive influence campaign by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Now, with America\u2019s K-12 landscape being turned upside down by \u201cequity\u201d initiatives that divide children by ethnicity and devalue rigorous academics, the culprit is much the same: Gates and other philanthropic foundations.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a takeaway from the two years I spent poring through educational and financial records for my new book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/race-to-the-bottom-luke-rosiak\">Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education<\/a>.\u201d These philanthropic foundations are perhaps the most powerful and least understood force in American politics \u2014 and a key node in moving critical race theory from academic papers to society. Pick any radical racial initiative in your child\u2019s school, and it is likely to tie back to the Ford, Kellogg, Gates, Annie E. Casey, MacArthur, or Surdna foundations.<\/p>\n<p>Take the 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones\u2019s 2019 New York Times series-turned-grade school curriculum. It might never have seen the light of day if not for the MacArthur Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, MacArthur <a href=\"https:\/\/capitalresearch.org\/article\/foundations-destroying-american-public-education-part-2\/\">awarded<\/a> a $1 million, three-year grant to ProPublica, a left-wing nonprofit news outlet for which Hannah-Jones wrote about race. In 2017, MacArthur awarded Hannah-Jones a \u201c$625,000, no-strings-attached grant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cHow the 1619 Project Came Together,\u201d the Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/18\/reader-center\/1619-project-slavery-jamestown.html\">explained<\/a> that Hannah-Jones consulted with \u201cKellie Jones, a Columbia University art historian and 2016 MacArthur Fellow.\u201d Matthew Desmond, who contributed an article about the \u201cbrutality of American capitalism\u201d to the series, was a 2015 MacArthur fellow.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit that <a href=\"https:\/\/pulitzercenter.org\/blog\/pulitzer-center-named-education-partner-new-york-times-magazines-1619-project\">pushed<\/a> curriculum based on the 1619 Project into schools is also <a href=\"https:\/\/pulitzercenter.org\/about\/donors\">funded<\/a> by MacArthur. In 2021, MacArthur <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macfound.org\/press\/press-releases\/two-iconic-american-writers-join-howard-university-to-create-a-center-to-educate-the-next-generation-of-black-journalists\">secured<\/a> a position for Hannah-Jones as a professor at Howard University, where she would teach her racial ideas and continue the 1619 Project, by donating $5 million to the school.<\/p>\n<p>The Kellogg Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachingforchange.org\/teaching-for-change-among-national-recipients-of-kellogg-foundation-family-engagement-awards\">bankrolls<\/a> the group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachingforchange.org\/zinnedproject\">behind<\/a> the Zinn Education Project (named after anti-American author Howard Zinn), which is relied on by a company that produces content for <a href=\"https:\/\/defendinged.org\/report\/newslea-inc\/\">90 percent<\/a> of K-12 schools. In one lesson plan, the teacher <a href=\"https:\/\/rethinkingschools.org\/articles\/whos-to-blame\/\">stages<\/a> a \u201ctribunal\u201d to decide who should be held \u201caccountable\u201d for Covid-19, tells students it should not be China, and leads them to order that \u201call members of the [U.S.] federal government [be put] in jail\u201d to \u201cend, or lower the amount of, capitalism so no secrets are present.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even groups that exist to get government officials on the same page, such as the National School Boards Association (which likened parents to \u201cdomestic terrorists\u201d), receive private funds from foundations like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsba.org\/LifeReady\/Curriculum\">Ford<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20111128006085\/en\/National-School-Boards-Association-Partners-with-Performance-Matters-Data-Analysis-System\">Gates<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carnegie.org\/grants\/grants-database\/grantee\/national-school-boards-association\/#!\/grants\/grants-database\/grant\/26743.0\/\">Carnegie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Making it even creepier, far-left foundations have converged through a group called Arabella, a for-profit company that brings them together alongside groups like the American Federation of Teachers union. Teachers union honcho Randi Weingarten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2017\/01\/01\/progressive-campaigns-nationwide-get-silent-partner\/96004224\/\">said<\/a> of one Arabella initiative, fittingly called \u201cThe Hub Project\u201d: \u201cIt essentially creates a place to have a shared strategy on issues with groups that might seem disparate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arabella is the same group that The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/29\/us\/politics\/democrats-dark-money-donors.html\">New York Times<\/a> conceded in January has led Democrats to dwarf Republicans with the \u201cdark money\u201d leftists publicly denounce. One tentacle of Arabella, the Sixteen Thirty Fund, spent more in 2020 than the Democratic National Committee.<\/p>\n<p>You likely don\u2019t know the name Arabella, or the names of its main nonprofits like the Sixteen Thirty Fund, because they specialize in creating pop-up astroturf fronts, which operate with little financial disclosure and with scant public recognition of where they\u2019re coming from.<\/p>\n<p>But these groups have been sowing the seeds of critical race theory in obscure educational bureaucracies since long before you even heard the term. In 2013, New Venture Fund, one of Arabella\u2019s most important arms, outright <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkkf.org\/grants\/grant\/2011\/12\/education-equity-and-excellence-commission-p3020365\">paid<\/a> for the creation of a federal government entity, the \u201cEquity and Excellence Commission,\u201d which <a href=\"https:\/\/oese.ed.gov\/files\/2020\/10\/equity-excellence-commission-report.pdf\">pushed<\/a> for a return to 1970s-style bussing.<\/p>\n<p>Savvy activists strategically fund force-multipliers: behind-the-scenes groups that shape others who go on to shape others. For those seeking to efficiently spread fringe ideas, there is no better bang for the buck than conscripting schoolchildren. But once I saw who was behind the curtain, it became clear why they hid.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>Luke Rosiak is an investigative reporter with the Daily Wire. He previously worked as a journalist at the Daily Caller and the Washington Post and is the author of the congressional scandal true thriller Obstruction of Justice. He lives with his wife and children outside Washington, D.C. in Fairfax County, Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago, when an Obama-era initiative called \u201cCommon Core\u201d convinced 41 states to give up control of their education standards, it was infamously the result of a massive influence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":1898328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Meet The Billionaires\u2019 Club Pumping Critical Race Theory Into Your Child\u2019s Classroom","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Meet The Billionaires\u2019 Club Pumping Critical Race Theory Into Your Child\u2019s Classroom","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492654","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\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}