The article discusses former President Trump's executive orders targeting education, specifically banning critical race theory and undermining diversity and inclusion in schools. His administration's approach is being characterized as an attempt to privatize education and suppress factual discourse about systemic racism and inequality. Furthermore, the piece emphasizes the potential damage to underfunded schools through significant cuts to federal funds, posing a serious threat to vulnerable students, particularly those from low-income backgrounds and with disabilities.
These actions are about indoctrinating young people with what I call "uncritical race theory" - an ideology that denies systemic racism, either dismissing it altogether or reducing it to nothing more than isolated individual bias.
If successful, this order would gut $18.4 billion in Title I funding, which provides crucial support to high-poverty schools, and strip $15.5 billion from disability education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), leaving millions of students without the resources they need.
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