An Orange County Board of Education trustee alleges the county superintendent accepted funds from a federal COVID grant last year for a program that espouses critical race theory for its schools.
OC Department of Education Superintendent Al Mijares accepted a $507,000 grant to allow the county Health Care Agency to create mental health centers—called WellSpaces—in a handful of department schools in a program known as Equity in OC.
The agency created the program in 2021 to disperse a $23 million federal COVID-19 grant it received from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to support mental and physical health in schools….