House GOP Investigates Schools for Using COVID-19 Funds to Pad District Administration, Teach Leftist Ideology

House GOP Investigates Schools for Using COVID-19 Funds to Pad District Administration, Teach Leftist Ideology
Opponents of critical race theory protest outside of the Loudoun County School Board headquarters in Ashburn, Va., on June 22, 2021. Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters
Naveen Athrappully
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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).

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 (pdf), the GOP members point out that those taxpayer dollars are being “used to indoctrinate children in core tenets of leftist ideology.”
Naveen Athrappully
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Naveen Athrappully is a news reporter covering business and world events at The Epoch Times.
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