Amid President Trump’s crackdown on DEI, one school district is charging ahead with an “Equity Summit.” The district’s “Equity Specialist” has asked potential attendees not to disclose information about the summit, citing “political attacks on equity.” Is this schools district seeking to hide what they’re doing from the Trump administration?

From The Daily Wire. Minnesota’s second-largest public school district told invitees to this month’s “Equity Summit” to keep quiet about the event, citing “current political attacks on equity.”

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Saint Paul Public Schools plans to hold this year’s “Beyond OUR Walls: Equity Summit” on Saturday, April 26, at one of the district’s high schools.

“I am reaching out to personally invite you, as an identified person/organization who may have interest or benefit from attending,” Edairra McCalister, the district’s Equity Specialist at its Office of Equity, wrote to invitees in a March 10 email obtained by The Daily Wire. …

“Current political attacks on equity have real, potentially harmful consequences for our students, staff, and families,” McCalister wrote.

🚨NEW: St Paul Public Schools in Minnesota told invitees to keep quiet about its “Equity Summit” this month citing “current political attacks on equity”

“We ask that you DO NOT share to social media or public-facing platforms”

From the district’s “equity specialist” pic.twitter.com/ZzCEwQktrU

— Mairead Elordi (@JohnsonHildy) April 10, 2025

“We ask that you DO NOT share to social media or public-facing platforms (e.g. Facebook, X, community bulletins or newsletters, district websites open to the public),” she wrote.

However, McCalister encouraged attendees, “please DO send directly to trusted people and groups who are committed to equity who may want to submit a workshop or attend.” …

The Trump administration has issued executive orders prohibiting federal funding for school districts that promote a “discriminatory equity ideology,” which includes the idea that the United States is fundamentally racist or that one race is “inherently racist” either “consciously or unconsciously.” …

The Equity Office also links to a “gender inclusion policy” that allows trans-identifying students to use the bathrooms and play on the sports teams of the opposite sex, which Trump’s executive order also prohibits. …

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