‘Segregation,’ DEI plan exposed in Illinois school district where faculty celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination

NY Post ^ | February 16, 2026 | Preston Mizell

[Twotone]

An Illinois school district filled with faculty who celebrated and hoped for the death of Charlie Kirk was exposed for their 2026 equity framework plan the district “aspires to” that includes hiring and retaining staff with “diverse backgrounds” and mandated DEI training sessions for faculty and students.

Defending Education uncovered Oswego District 308’s equity roadmap through several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, which brought to light an annual report summary on DEI as well as the district’s DEI plan for 2026.

One FOIA request detailing an equity report showed that a middle school in the district divided students by racial background, without notifying parents, as part of equity training sessions for staff in 2025.

The equity director wrote after the session, which was held during “Student Support Time,” that she identified the “challenges with being discriminated against based on color” and that her next session would be with “those who identify as White.”

Erika Sanzi, senior director of communications at Defending Education, told Fox News Digital that the district’s move to divide students into races could be considered “segregation.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: dei; education; illinois; oswegodistrict308; race; segregation

[Carry_Okie]

Anybody dumb enough to think anything can be done to change public school instruction without deposing teachers’ unions is not worthy of consideration. Trump Administration ‘orders’ to end DEI are (while helpful) illusory.

[Twotone]

It’s not even just the unions, although they are bad enough. Our teachers are being educated in universities where they are brain-washed, & prepared to brainwash the next generation. The entire system should be brought down.

They just got school choice through in Texas. It would be simpler, & more effective, to mandate the home-school curriculum from Hillsdale College or Wall-Builders. If the teachers don’t want to teach that curriculum, they can leave.

[Carry_Okie]

Our teachers are being educated in universities where they are brain-washed,

The NEA was founded in 1870. Teachers College at Columbia was founded in 1887.

[eyeamok]

faculty who celebrated and hoped for the death of Charlie Kirk
when I was in school these peoplle would have been Escorted off school property by the Parents.

[Twotone]

The NEA was founded in 1870. Teachers College at Columbia was founded in 1887.

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I guess that means THEY are responsible for the teachers colleges & need for a degree to teach. I think we’d be better off with a bunch of old Army Sergeants teaching in our schools.

[lgjhn23]

Just wait till one of their “high profile” POSs gets to take a well-deserved dirt nap and let’s see how they celebrate that....spit.
They’ll howl, wail, gnash their teeth, cuss, shake thir fists, riot, whatever, etc.
They even can go cry me a river, and I STILLL WON”T CARE.....

[Carry_Okie]

I guess that means THEY are responsible for the teachers colleges & need for a degree to teach.

No, place that at the feet of John D. Rockefeller, who sat on the General Education Board.