{"id":1641715,"date":"2022-09-15T11:19:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T15:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641715"},"modified":"2022-09-15T11:19:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T15:19:42","slug":"house-gop-investigates-schools-for-using-covid-19-funds-to-pad-district-administration-teach-leftist-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-investigates-schools-for-using-covid-19-funds-to-pad-district-administration-teach-leftist-ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP Investigates Schools for Using COVID-19 Funds to Pad District Administration, Teach Leftist Ideology"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fhouse-gop-investigates-schools-for-using-covid-19-funds-to-pad-district-administration-teach-leftist-ideology%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=1641715&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--><p>House Republicans on the Oversight and Reform Committee and the Education and Labor Committee are looking into the misuse of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-covid-19-relief\">COVID-19 relief<\/a> funds at schools, specifically in funding divisive racial teachings like critical race theory (CRT).<\/p>\n<p>Congress created the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) fund to ensure that schools reopened safely and addressed the learning loss suffered by students due to the pandemic. In a Sept. 14 letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona (<a href=\"https:\/\/republicans-oversight.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/SecCardonaUse-of-ESSER.CRT_.FINAL61.pdf\">pdf<\/a>), the GOP members point out that those taxpayer dollars are being \u201cused to indoctrinate children in core tenets of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-leftist\">leftist<\/a> ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations (CRRSA) Act of 2021 signed by President Donald Trump contributed $13.2 billion and $54.3 billion to the ESSER Fund, respectively. The American Rescue Plan (ARP), signed by President Joe Biden, provided over $120 billion.<\/p>\n<p>At least 10 states developed plans for using the ESSER funds to implement \u201cracially biased curriculum and programs based on Critical Race Theory,\u201d the letter notes. Critical race theory categorizes people as white and nonwhite, with whites cast as oppressors with privilege and nonwhites cast as the oppressed.<\/p>\n<p>In California, ESSER funds have been used for training in \u201cLGBTQ+ cultural competency,\u201d \u201cethnic studies,\u201d and \u201cenvironmental literacy,\u201d the letter states.<\/p>\n<p>In New York, $9 billion in ESSER funds were used to train staff members about \u201cprivilege,\u201d \u201cculturally responsive sustaining instruction,\u201d and to recognize \u201cequity warriors.\u201d In Illinois, a part of the $5.1 billion in ESSER funds went to make \u201cequity driven investments\u201d and emphasizing \u201cequity and diversity,\u201d said the letter.<\/p>\n<p> Learning Loss, Filling Up Administrative Positions <\/p>\n<p>The letter points out that despite considerable funding, the learning loss among U.S. students has been significant. \u201cDuring the 2020\u20132021 school year, passing math rates declined by 14.2 percent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans on the Oversight and Reform Committee and the Education and Labor Committee are looking into the misuse of COVID-19 relief funds at schools, specifically in funding divisive racial teachings like critical race theory (CRT). 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