Virginia Beach NAACP inspired by student turnout at board meeting following suspension of DEI programs

Virginia Beach NAACP inspired by student turnout at board meeting following suspension of DEI programs

Community organizations are reacting as Virginia Beach School Board members have policy meetings to see how a suspension of DEI programs will be enforced.

Virginia Beach residents react to school board’s decision to eliminate DEI

In an hours-long school board meeting, people lined up to oppose or support a policy culling diversity, equity and inclusion from the schools.

FDOE demands Palm Beach County schools rid DEI efforts or risk losing $300M in funding

Hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding could be in jeopardy if the Palm Beach County School Board doesn’t rid diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)

VB school board gets earful on DEI decision

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — It has been a long, simmering battle over diversity, equity and inclusion in public schools, and Tuesday, the Virginia Beach School Board got an earful from a standing room only crowd, many of them students, about its previous decision to suspend what has become a controversial policy. VB board adopts resolution to suspend DEI initiatives The meeting was the first for the board since it adopted the resolution, …

Walters: OK schools have until April 24 to ban DEI or lose federal funding

Oklahoma public schools are being told to sign a letter agreeing to ban Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or lose federal funding. The Title VI assurance letter follows the Trump Administration's requirement that all schools comply with the elimination of DEI initiatives. State Superintendent Ryan Walters said the majority of Oklahoma schools have already signed the letter. Here's the letter in full. According to his office, as of April 18,…