MTG claims school in Illinois received $5.1 BILLION in funding for "equity and diversity"

[LymphocyteLover]

Congressional hearing today--

Greene: Can you tell me how much COVID cash went to CRT?

Govt official: CRT?

Greene: It’s 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"

Link to tweet

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Not only is she horribly evil, she is horribly dumb

[Beaverhausen]

1. Here is an article from March 2021. This is at least where her $5.1B comes from

https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2021/3/18/22336933/illinois-chicago-public-schools-5-1-billion-in-federal-stimulus-funding-for-schools-covid19

[LymphocyteLover]

17. Sure, that makes sense. But one elementary school for DEI training? FFS

[Beaverhausen]

2. oh here we go...

https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2022/04/illinois-makes-national-headlines-for-spending-covid-relief-to-push-crt-curriculum-.html

[sinkingfeeling]

5. RW source of rumor.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. I wouldn't put much stock in that.

The Illinois Review is a conservative publication, and I wouldn't trust their truthfulness.

[sheshe2]

11. Anymore than we would trust Madge for truthfulness.

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. Very true.

[LymphocyteLover]

18. they basically excerpted a FoxNews article with some snarky comments

and of course FoxNews is hardly reliable on this issue in particular

[riversedge]

10. No doubt MTG used this conservative newspaper. whow.

[LymphocyteLover]

19. Here's the Illinois plan. It all seems very normal and reasonable.

https://oese.ed.gov/illinois-arp-esser-state-plan/

[Lifeafter70]

3. Evil and dumb. I would also add racist

[sinkingfeeling]

4. How can a country survive with idiots in charge?

[bluestarone]

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]

8. Better fasten your seat belt, gonna be a bumpy 2 years.

[riversedge]

9. two years of this crap. whow.

[sinkingfeeling]

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.

[tinymontgomery]

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]

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]

16. Wow...

$5b for “a school” (singular). Those bathrooms at the school must all have Trump golden toilets!