Biden Education Department spent over $1 billion on DEI grants - report | 12 Dec 2024 | The U.S. Department of Education spent at least $1 billion on grants advancing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in hiring, programming and mental health training in America's schools since 2021, according to a new report. Parents Defending Education "PDE", a right-leaning organization that pledges to "reclaim our schools from activists imposing harmful agendas," shared its new report exclusively with Fox News Digital. Researchers at the organization pored through nearly four years of publicly available data from the Department of Education to determine the number of grants and the dollar amount awarded to students and school districts for grants that had a clear DEI "motive." From 2021 to present, they found the Biden administration awarded 229 grants across 42 states and Washington, D.C. that met that criteria.