Illinois school district DEI plan includes ‘racial segregation’ training

FIRST ON FOX: An Illinois faculty district crammed with academics celebrating and hoping for Charlie Kirk’s dying had been uncovered to their 2026 fairness framework plan that the district is “aiming for,” which incorporates hiring and retaining workers from “numerous backgrounds” and necessary DEI coaching classes for academics and college students.

Defending Schooling uncovered Oswego District 308’s fairness roadmap by way of a number of Freedom of Info Act (FOIA) requests, which revealed a abstract of the district’s annual report on DEI and the district’s 2026 DEI plan.

A FOIA request detailing an fairness report revealed {that a} highschool within the district segregated college students by racial background, with out notifying mother and father, as a part of 2025 fairness coaching for workers.

The fairness director wrote after the session, which was held throughout “Pupil Help Time,” that she recognized the “challenges of discrimination primarily based on shade” and that her subsequent session could be with “those that determine as white.”

An Illinois faculty district is beneath scrutiny after FOIA requests revealed a 2026 fairness framework that promotes DEI hiring, necessary coaching and race-based scholar classes held with out parental notification. (Scott Olson/Getty Photographs)

Erika Sanzi, senior communications director at Defending Schooling, informed Fox Information Digital that the district’s transfer to divide college students by race could possibly be thought of “segregation.”

“Calling it a racial affinity group is only a nicer method to specific racial segregation; these equality assemblies that divide college students primarily based on the colour of their pores and skin are with out justification, to not point out unlawful,” Sanzi defined. “No matter intent, the ideology behind race-based packages and actions in faculties is harmful and have to be eradicated.”

The fairness report additionally discovered that top faculty divisions held “particular content material/fairness” trainings, the place college students may take part in alternatives akin to lunch and be taught extra about “LGBTQ+, Migroaggressions, Ramadan.”

After Charlie Kirk’s homicide, a Kendall County Occasions report revealed that Jadon A. Waller, the district’s superintendent of fairness and engagement for grades Ok-8, posted a message on Fb calling Kirk a “fashionable Klans man.”

“I see quite a lot of black individuals right here interfering with the dying of a contemporary Klans man… and I’ve to say I am confused and disenchanted. Who’re you making an attempt to make comfy? As a result of it makes me uncomfortable.”

In keeping with the report, Waller posted on Fb beneath the identify Ashley Jadon.

Newly found information reveals an Illinois district is implementing race-focused fairness coaching, range hiring priorities and DEI conferences, whereas a senior administrator sparked outrage over social media posts about Charlie Kirk. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto by way of Getty Photographs)

In keeping with the college district’s web site, Waller nonetheless works at Oswego District 308.

Waller didn’t reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.

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As for the 2026 outlook, the report confirmed plans for DEI coaching in elementary and center faculties and a DEI design crew to “analyze and deal with inequities inside scholar educational efficiency” and scholar self-discipline.

In an “indicators of success” part, the place outcomes will likely be mirrored in subsequent yr’s report, the district calls on Ok-12 trainer leaders and directors to “facilitate no less than two of their very own DEI trainings by the tip of the yr.”

The Illinois faculty district additionally plans to “accomplice with surrounding districts and Waubonsee Neighborhood School to host our first DEI convention known as ASCEND!”

One assertion says the district will “acknowledge the existence of racism in our faculties and in our neighborhood” and “we’ll deal with injustices that result in racial inequality and work to coach and alter conduct” to advertise inclusivity.

Along with encouraging DEI within the classroom, the recruitment and retention portion of the plan forces the district to “prioritize” numerous hires.

Oswego District 308 is dealing with backlash after experiences that workers celebrated the dying of Charlie Kirk and paperwork exposing fairness initiatives together with racial affinity teams and expanded DEI programming. (Getty Photographs/iStock)

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“We’ll prioritize the recruitment, retention and promotion of directors and workers from numerous backgrounds to make sure our school crew displays our scholar inhabitants,” the framework reads.

A job posting for a center faculty principal within the faculty district obtained by Defending Schooling says “the appropriate candidate” should prioritize fairness and lawful attendance… throughout the district.

Oswego District 308’s dedication to DEI would not cease there. The district proposed a $75,000 grant to the Board of Schooling to ascertain a partnership with a corporation for a residency program that “recruits and retains new academics who replicate the racial, cultural and linguistic range of the communities we serve.”

From October 2023 to March 2024, throughout a earlier partnership between the district and a separate group, the college district spent taxpayer cash on DEI provides, together with satisfaction parade stickers and a satisfaction parade price to take part.

The college district spent cash to take part in a satisfaction parade, together with stickers and supplies. (Joshua Stanyer/SOPA Photographs/LightRocket by way of Getty Photographs)

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The earlier partnership held coaching classes for district workers and college students, asking individuals to learn “How Privileged Am I” and fee themselves primarily based on how privileged they’re.

“Generate a privilege listing associated to P-12 settings for the group of scholars and grownup educators assigned to your crew, by specifying how college students and adults might expertise programs of advantages or rights accessible to them primarily based solely on their social identities,” the coaching directions say.

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Whereas these coaching classes had been held within the Illinois faculty district, the group is conducting comparable workout routines by way of partnerships with state and native instructional businesses throughout the nation.

Oswego District 308 didn’t reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.

Preston Mizell is a author at Fox Information. Story ideas will be despatched to Preston.Mizell@fox.com and at X @MizellPreston