Wisconsin State GOP Votes to Cut UWisconsin's Budget by $32 Million -- the Exact Amount the University Spends on DIE Programs

Nice.

State Republicans will cut the University of Wisconsin's budget by $32 million, the estimated total the institution was expected to spend on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, according to The Associated Press.

Wisconsin Republican lawmakers announced Thursday that they will be cutting the university's budget for DEI initiatives from the state's 2023-25 budget, according to the AP. The university can earn the funding back if they show the lawmakers they are focusing on workforce development programs instead of DEI initiatives.

"For people on the left, DEI has become their new religion," Republican state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos told the AP ahead of the decision. "They no longer go to church on Sunday, but boy, are they trying to make sure everybody is evangelized on campus, that's there only one acceptable viewpoint. That's not what I think taxpayers should be funding."

Meanwhile: Biden appoints a new member of a Homeland Security "school safety board."

That member? Vicious children-hating hag Randi Weingarten.

They sure act like they've rigged the elections so that the public's opinion just doesn't matter.

Oh, and of course this "school safety board" is tasked with making sure school employees are safe from "domestic terrorists," aka parents.

The Biden administration announced new members of its school safety board this week, including Randi Weingarten, the teachers' union head who backed school closures throughout the pandemic.

The Homeland Security Academic Partnership Council, which makes recommendations on safety concerns in schools, received 20 new appointments this week including Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers. DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who has faced Republican pushback for his response to the ongoing border crisis, announced the selections this week.

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Weingarten testified in front of Congress in April surrounding her union's role in shaping public policy on school lockdowns. Weingarten told Congress that "we spent every day from February on trying to get schools open. We knew that remote education was not a substitute for opening schools."

A review of Weingarten's statements by the Washington Free Beacon found that she was actually not the school reopening champion she says she was. She called then-president Donald Trump's desire to reopen schools "reckless," "callous," and "cruel."
Emails and phone records also reveal Weingarten and her union were in contact with the Centers for Disease Control in the days before the agency issues guidance that critics said made it too difficult for schools to reopen.

Meanwhile, two moms questioned a school's insistence on pushing leftist CRT ideology on their kids.

The school reported them... to the FBI.

Two mothers accused an Ohio private school of launching a retaliation campaign against them and their children after they questioned the school's leftist curriculum, the parents' lawsuit alleges.

Amy Gonzalez and Andrea Gross told Fox News Digital that Columbus Academy reported them to the FBI as "dangerous to the health and wellbeing of the entire Academy community" and attempted to destroy their reputation.

Related: Teachers trade tips about how to lie to parents while they gender-swap their children.

From the Daily Mail:

Dozens of Midwestern teachers met online this week and traded tips on helping trans students change gender at school without their parents' knowledge, while criticizing a raft of new Republican laws on sex and identity.

DailyMail.com gained access to an online session hosted by the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP), which is funded by the Department of Education, attended by some 30 teachers from Michigan, Iowa, Ohio, Illinois and beyond.

In the four-hour workshop, they discussed helping trans students in the face of new laws in Republican-run states on gender, pronouns, names, parents' rights, bathroom access, and sports teams.

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Kimberly Martin, the DEI coordinator for Royal Oak Schools, which serves 5,000 K-12 students in Michigan, spoke about helping trans students keep their gender change a secret.

'We're working with our record-keeping system so that certain screens can't be seen by the parents ... if there's a nickname in there we're trying to hide,' Martin told the online gathering.

Jennifer Haglund, counselor for Ames Community Schools, which serves 5,000 K-12 Iowa students, complained about Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds in March signing a law that bars biological males from competing on female sports teams.

She bragged about her 'own activism' and of taking part in protest marches.

'I know that I have my own right code of ethics, and that doesn't always go along with the law,' Haglund said.

Shea Martin, an Ohio-based trans educator, who writes a 'socialist, feminist, and anti-racist' blog called Radical Teacher, said she worked against 'laws that prohibit or restrict trans advocacy.'

'The stakes are very high for trans youth,' Martin said.

'I think that requires working subversively and quietly sometimes to make sure that trans kids have what they need.'

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