Decatur Schools Hid $2 Million DEI Program as Federal Crackdown Threatened Funding
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Updated · Fox News · Jun 27
Decatur Schools Hid $2 Million DEI Program as Federal Crackdown Threatened Funding
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 27
Summary
$2 million in DEI spending is at the center of a watchdog report alleging Georgia’s City Schools of Decatur scrubbed websites and altered race-based policies to avoid federal scrutiny.
DFI said the district embedded race-focused ideology across teacher training and curriculum, including “Beyond Diversity,” “Courageous Conversations About Race,” and efforts to “decolonize” instruction by reducing “Eurocentric” content.
April 2025 brought a formal rescission of the district’s equity policy after the Trump administration tightened Title VI enforcement, and DFI said the “Equity @ CSD” resource database and equity-department references then disappeared from public view.
District leaders’ comments suggested the retreat was cosmetic, with a vice chairman saying the change was “not stopping us from doing the work—it’s stopping us from using the words.”
CSD, a small district outside Atlanta, did not respond to requests for comment, leaving the allegations as the latest flashpoint in the broader federal push against allegedly discriminatory school DEI programs.