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Exclusive: Over the past few years, dozens of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) consultant groups have won more than $100 million taxpayer-funded contracts from K-12 schools across the country.
The report, shared with Fox News Digital, details how 41 groups of DEI consultants have won millions of contracts from 2021 to the present in taxpayer-funded agreements from 303 school districts and public education institutions.
In total, the group has raised more than $123 million from public schools in 40 states. The report found public school contracts in both red and blue states, from Florida and Alabama to California and Washington.
Erika Sanji, a spokesman for advocating for education, describes the school-meeter partnership as “a perfect racket that exacerbates the school,” and often fails to consider age appropriateness in the curriculum.
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Over the past few years, a group of dozen consultants have won more than $100 million tax contracts from K-12 schools across the country, a new report has found. (Getty)
According to the report, the biggest winner of the scheme is Amplify, a company that provides professional development and curriculum to school districts, earning a total of over $70,500,000.
According to the report, Amplify said its mission is to “educate and thereby make it more equitable and accessible” and “help help teachers build, expand, expand and strengthen knowledge about where they come from and who they are becoming.”
In response, an Amplify representative told Fox News Digital that the group “publishes textbooks and other educational materials that will help students learn reading, mathematics and science,” and that “nowhere in Amplify’s products is in training programs on how they are used for ideology or political agendas.”
The representative said, “Our program helps students learn how to think, not how to think.”
The report highlights another group of consultants: Coordinated Equity Solutions. It says it relates to the culturally responsive school leadership lab, which helps to challenge the school’s “whiteness and hegemonic epistemology.”
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Students will arrive at Benson High School on April 19, 2021 on the first day of junior and high school hybrid instruction in Portland, Oregon. (Carlos Delgado at Portland Public Schools/AP image)
The group won more than $1 million from public schools during the study period.
“Translating the hearts of other people’s children is a big company, and countless K-12 schools across the country are active participants,” Sanji said. “They pay a lot of money to sign ideologues and activists. They have direct or indirect access to the young, heart-potential audience.”
Speaking to Fox News Digital via Zoom, Sanzi said, “It’s not that this is a focus on interventions like academic interventions, it’s a lot of technical terms that have not been proven to be measurable so far.
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Sanzi said these DEI groups put together their activities in comfortable terms such as “attribution” and “empathy,” but often end up becoming “wolves in sheep’s clothes.”
“In the beginning, I think of lessons about empathy so that it’s good,” she said. “Who doesn’t want your kids to empathize with? We want that. Identifying as a woman, biologically male, is a woman, goes into the bathroom with her until we realize that the lessons about empathy are like a little girl in the school bathroom, a staff member who is trans. As a woman, and her discomfort is a problem… the discomfort in that situation is wrong or I don’t empathize with her.”
Morning Sun lights the front of the Department of Education building in Washington, DC, February 4, 2025 (Reuters/Kevin Lamarck)
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Nevertheless, Sanzi said that many of these consultant groups were adjusted by scrubbing references to DEIs on their websites, and using other words to explain the same.
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“We see a lot of names being changed,” she said. “So they might say, ‘Well, we’re removing the DEI office or we’re removing the stock directors.’ [But] What we often notice is that you often see the switch, so the evidence is in the pudding. And the question is, “Are you getting rid of it? Or are you just rebranding it and moving it elsewhere and removing it from the website?”
“What many don’t understand is that the founders of these consulting companies, the people who run them, and the practitioners, are activists. They are ideologues,” she continued. “They have all the right to believe that what they are sending is the right thing to do, but in the public school setting that is necessary to maintain diversity in perspective, these really don’t have a place, not just because of the cost, but because they are trying to push other children’s agendas.
The Culturally Responsive School Leadership Institute did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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