Report: Biden Education Department Encouraged Schools To Use COVID Relief Funds On ‘Social Emotional Learning’

The Biden administration’s Department of Education encouraged school districts to use coronavirus relief funds on “social-emotional learning,” which advocates that school districts should host “free, antiracist therapy for White educators” among other equity proposals. 

Between the CARES Act, the COVID Relief Package of 2020, and the American Rescue Plan, Congress allocated nearly $200 billion in coronavirus relief funding for K-12 institutions. Part of the American Rescue Plan — the first coronavirus relief bill passed under the Biden administration — mandates that schools reserve 20 percent of their COVID-19 relief funds for interventions that “respond to students’ academic, social and emotional needs.”