CV NEWS FEED // Homeschooling and private education are among the only long-term answers parents have to the increasing influence of DEI policies in public schools, according to Sheri Few, founder and president of United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE).
“Despite corporations and other institutions abandoning ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ (DEI), divisive policies are still being promoted by the U.S. Department of Education under the Biden administration,” said Few in a statement via email.
Few pointed to the case of the Green Bay Area School District in Wisconsin as an example, where, according to the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), a “School Success” plan “prioritizes some racial groups over others.”
WILL is threatening to sue the district on behalf of an elementary school student who was reportedly denied support for his dyslexia because he is white.
The district has confirmed that “Green Bay public school officials have never denied the discriminatory initiative that prioritizes educational resources to black, Hispanic and ‘First Nation’ students over others,” according to WILL’s education counsel Cory Brewer.
Few weighed in on the broader scope of the issue, commenting, “The short-term solution here is to make the offending officials stop abusing their power. The long-term solution is to promote homeschooling and private education, and to get rid of the U.S. Department of Education, which has spent nearly $1 billion pushing these Marxist DEI initiatives on kids and teachers.”
She also criticized the Department of Education for “wasting huge amounts of money hurting children and causing discrimination.”
“Closing the Department of Education would eliminate grants that promote discrimination,” she said. “The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division will be responsible for protecting the civil rights of all citizens.”
