Biden-Harris Admin Allocated Nearly $1 Million To Deploy ‘Antiracist’ Counselors To Red State Public Schools
The Department of Education awarded a grant to the University of Missouri System in 2023 that funded the deployment of 64 “antiracist” counselors to the state’s public schools, records show. Through the Partnership for…
The Department of Education awarded a grant to the University of Missouri System in 2023 that funded the deployment of 64 “antiracist” counselors to the state’s public schools, records show.
Through the Partnership for Antiracist Counselor Training (PACT) program, which was allocated just over $900,000 in federal funding, University of Missouri–St. Louis students were trained on how to provide pupils enrolled within Riverview Gardens School District with “trauma-informed, antiracist” counseling. Emily Brown and Mary Edwin, the two professors in charge of running the single-district program, expressed optimism that the antiracist counseling could help the school district decrease its number of suspensions while increasing student attendance, according to a university blog post.
Riverview Gardens School District has persistent problems with poor test scores, lagging attendance and mass fights, according to local reporting. Riverview Gardens High School transitioned