I appeared on August 4, 2025, on I’m Right with Jesse Kelly to talk about the redistricting fight at the Supreme Court, the continued defiance of District Court judges, and our call for the Department of Justice to investigate the Rhode Island Foundation over the Providence school district Educator of Color Loan Forgiveness Program.
I’ve been on Jesse’s show many times. Fun fact: As of tonight, two of the four most popular videos ever on his YouTube channel are interviews with me.
You can watch the entire segment here.
Here is the segment on SCOTUS and redistricting:
I got a chance in the last three minutes of the segment to talk about the Rhode Island Foundation and the Providence School District’s racist anti-White teacher hiring program. To refresh your memories, as a result of our legal complaint and over two years of follow up, the Department of Justice has opened an investigation of the school district and the EEOC recently issued a “final determination” that there was reasonable cause (a legal standard for them to move foreward) that the district violated the civil rights laws.
But no one, to the best of our knowledge, is investigating one of the main cuprits, the Rhode Island Foundation, the $1.5 billion dollar charity led by former Congressman and House Impeachment Floor Manager David Cicilline, that helped create, administer, and fund the program.
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Kelly:What’s happening in Rhode Island? Are white teachers being targeted? What’s happening here?WAJ:Yeah. Legal Insurrection and our Equal Protection Project for almost three years have been challenging an outrageous program in the Providence Public School District, which is the largest school district in the state by far. It’s a disaster in terms of student education. It was so bad the state had to take it over. So the kids’ proficiency at grade level is someplace around 10% of the students. But the district is obsessed with …. [Kelly reaction] Yes, it’s horrible. It’s hard beyond horrible. From what I’ve seen from math, I think it’s below 10% at grade level.And so the district though, all they care about is DEI. All they care about is racial stuff. And they created a program along with a group called the Rhode Island Foundation, the largest charity in the state, a billion and a half dollar charity, to hire more teachers into the system because nobody wants to work there.And the charity would pay off up to $25,000 of their student loans for new teachers with a big catch — only if you’re non-white. And they literally named the program the Educator of Color Loan Forgiveness Program. We challenged it.The Department of Justice has now opened an investigation. The EEOC, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, just came out with a final determination that this was likely a violation of the law.But in Rhode Island, they don’t care. Rhode Island’s a heavily democratic state, but worse than that, it’s become heavily progressive. It’s far left wing. It’s not like the old Democratic Party in Rhode Island, which was very blue collar, working class. Now it’s the elites and they are pushing these things and they don’t care.We have complained loudly. We’ve gotten a lot of media coverage. The [Rhode Island] Attorney General is silent, the political leadership is silent.Fortunately, it looks like the Trump Department of Justice, and it looks like the Trump EEOC are going go after the school district.But the question I’m asking is, why aren’t they going after this Rhode Island Foundation? Rhode Island Foundation helped create the program, administer the program, and fund the program.So I’ve been calling for a year now, over a year now, for the Department of Justice to go after the Rhode Island Foundation, and that’s what’s going on. This is emblematic of the problem at the local and state level. Even though we have all these great Supreme Court rulings, even though we have all these great civil rights laws, progressive Democrats do not care and at the state level, they will not be held accountable.Kelly:Stay on it, Bill. Appreciate you as always.
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