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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMTG claims school in Illinois received $5.1 BILLION in funding for "equity and diversity"
Congressional hearing today--
Greene: Can you tell me how much COVID cash went to CRT?
Govt official: CRT?
Greene: Its a racist curriculum used to teach children that somehow their white skin not equal to black skin and other things...
Govt official: federal funds are supposed to be used for curriculum
Greene: oh Mr Dodaro, you should know that an elementary school in Illinois received $5.1 BILLION in funding for "equity and diversity"
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Not only is she horribly evil, she is horribly dumb
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MTG claims school in Illinois received $5.1 BILLION in funding for "equity and diversity" (Original Post)
LymphocyteLover
Feb 2023
OP
Here is an article from March 2021. This is at least where her $5.1B comes from
Beaverhausen
Feb 2023
#1
Sure, that makes sense. But one elementary school for DEI training? FFS
LymphocyteLover
Feb 2023
#17
All i can say is, our skin needs to thicken for two years (because it's gonna get LOTS worse)
bluestarone
Feb 2023
#7
There is a tool that allows anyone to see how Illinois is spending the stimulus.
sinkingfeeling
Feb 2023
#12
Beaverhausen
(24,470 posts)1. Here is an article from March 2021. This is at least where her $5.1B comes from
LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)17. Sure, that makes sense. But one elementary school for DEI training? FFS
Beaverhausen
(24,470 posts)2. oh here we go...
sinkingfeeling
(51,454 posts)5. RW source of rumor.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,733 posts)6. I wouldn't put much stock in that.
The Illinois Review is a conservative publication, and I wouldn't trust their truthfulness.
sheshe2
(83,751 posts)11. Anymore than we would trust Madge for truthfulness.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,733 posts)15. Very true.
LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)18. they basically excerpted a FoxNews article with some snarky comments
and of course FoxNews is hardly reliable on this issue in particular
riversedge
(70,204 posts)10. No doubt MTG used this conservative newspaper. whow.
LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)19. Here's the Illinois plan. It all seems very normal and reasonable.
Lifeafter70
(203 posts)3. Evil and dumb. I would also add racist
sinkingfeeling
(51,454 posts)4. How can a country survive with idiots in charge?
bluestarone
(16,926 posts)7. All i can say is, our skin needs to thicken for two years (because it's gonna get LOTS worse)
Plus depend deeply on the Democratic controlled senate!
KS Toronado
(17,220 posts)8. Better fasten your seat belt, gonna be a bumpy 2 years.
riversedge
(70,204 posts)9. two years of this crap. whow.
sinkingfeeling
(51,454 posts)12. There is a tool that allows anyone to see how Illinois is spending the stimulus.
https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2022/12/15/23511569/covid-spending-illinois-school-districts-chicago-esser
Illinois school districts have spent less than half of the roughly $7.8 billion the state got in federal COVID recovery money, according to a new spending dashboard launched today.
So far, federal COVID recovery money has been spent on existing staff, technology, tutoring, and transportation. Some districts in Illinois and around the country are using the influx of cash to fix aging buildings. Others are using the money to expand pre-school and give high school students jobs.
The federal government approved three separate rounds of stimulus funding for schools as part of sweeping government aid doled out across the country in 2020 and 2021. The first wave of $569.5 million came one month into the pandemic under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act. The new dashboard shows nearly all of that money has been spent.
Congress authorized another massive infusion of money in 2021 to help districts recover from the academic and mental health setbacks spurred by the pandemic. Illinois received about $7 billion in these subsequent rounds. States and school districts must allocate the money by fall 2024.
Illinois school districts have spent less than half of the roughly $7.8 billion the state got in federal COVID recovery money, according to a new spending dashboard launched today.
So far, federal COVID recovery money has been spent on existing staff, technology, tutoring, and transportation. Some districts in Illinois and around the country are using the influx of cash to fix aging buildings. Others are using the money to expand pre-school and give high school students jobs.
The federal government approved three separate rounds of stimulus funding for schools as part of sweeping government aid doled out across the country in 2020 and 2021. The first wave of $569.5 million came one month into the pandemic under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act. The new dashboard shows nearly all of that money has been spent.
Congress authorized another massive infusion of money in 2021 to help districts recover from the academic and mental health setbacks spurred by the pandemic. Illinois received about $7 billion in these subsequent rounds. States and school districts must allocate the money by fall 2024.
tinymontgomery
(2,584 posts)13. As some one posted on twitter
As some one posted on twitter, not the exact quote, he should have asked what she did with the $183,504 in PPP money that she receive in loan forgiveness.
These people need to be put on the defensive and watch the rep's freak out about them being questioned.
Diamond_Dog
(31,989 posts)14. Too bad they don't express the same degree of outrage
over the disgusting racists in Ohio home schooling their kids to be Nazis.
NowISeetheLight
(3,943 posts)16. Wow...
$5b for a school (singular). Those bathrooms at the school must all have Trump golden toilets!