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Georgia School District Scrubbed DEI Records to Dodge Federal Crackdown, Watchdog Report Alleges

6/28/2026

A new watchdog report alleges that City Schools of Decatur, a small public school district just outside Atlanta, quietly removed race-focused materials from its website and rewrote equity policies to evade federal scrutiny.

The Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies published the findings, claiming the district ran a years-long, multimillion-dollar DEI agenda and then worked to conceal it once federal funding was placed at risk.

The Spending Trail DFI's report documents what it describes as a sustained institutional commitment to race-centered programming between 2017 and 2024.

The district spent more than two million dollars on DEI initiatives overall, with roughly $1.8 million of that sum going toward salaries for equity department staff, according to figures DFI attributes to a report by local outlet Decaturish.

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