Many schools are not resuming classes as the year begins, citing COVID-19, after spending some of the $130 billion schools received for reopening on Critical Race Theory-infused initiatives instead, a review of funding applications shows.

On President Joe Biden’s first day in office, he told Americans that delivering $130 billion in supplementary funding to schools through his American Rescue Plan (ARP) would “provide schools the resources they need to reopen safely.”

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“We can [open schools] if we give school districts, communities, and states the clear guidance they need as well as the resources they will need,” he said…

Yet this month, schools in numerous districts will be closed, citing an inability to deal with the Omicron variant, despite receiving money that could have gone towards mitigation, protection, and preventative measures. That, it turns out, could be in part due to a bait-and-switch, with money passed into law under the guise of public health being used for racial ideology instead.

Here’s how some states are choosing more “pressing” issues to budget their education:

New York – Buffalo Public Schools said it would spend $1.2 million of the money on its Office of Culturally & Linguistically Responsive Initiatives, including hiring staff for “anti-racism” and for “emancipation curriculum materials.” Fox reported in 2020 that the emancipation curriculum advocates to elementary school students “the disruption of Western nuclear family dynamics” in favor of “Black Villages.”

Michigan – It said it would spend it on a Culturally Responsive School Leadership Institute Academies (CRSLIA) program that “challenges Whiteness and hegemonic epistemologies in school.”

Michigan schools that will open the 2022 year — the third year of coronavirus — online include Detroit, Ann Arbor, Oak Park, Lansing, Pontiac, and Southfield.

Massachusetts said it would hire race consultants like the Kaleidoscope Collective for Learning to “engag[e] in robust agency-wide anti-racism training” and use “a portion of the ARP ESSER funds to…create a culturally responsive, anti-racist and welcoming environment” in schools.

Minnesota said it would use the money not to just to address COVID, but also “racial stressors,” “social inequities,” and “gender identity…”

Biden said the Omicron variant was not a reason to close schools, and that we “I believe that school should remain open. They have what they need because of the American Rescue Plan…. we provided the states with $130 billion with a B, to specifically keep our students safe and keep schools open. Funding for ventilation…”

But progressive activists have made no secret that the bill was not actually written that way. The money is spread over five years, indicating that it was not only intended to directly address coronavirus.

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(Excerpt from The Daily Wire. Photo Credit: Getty Images)