New York City’s most elite private schools will attend a “diversity symposium” this week, hosted by a nonprofit critics say perpetuates antisemitic and anti-Western viewpoints while turning the ritzy institutes into “indoctrination centers” by promoting diversity, equity and inclusion for kids starting at the pre-K level.
The stated agenda for the New York State Association of Independent Schools (NYSAIS) Diversity Symposium 2026, kicking off at the Lycée Français De New York on April 9, is to “assess the current state of diversity, equity and inclusion in practice and pose the critically important question: where do we go from here?”
President Trump touted in his State of the Union address in February that the administration has “ended DEI” in America once and for all as universities and corporations have dismantled or blunted programs in that realm.
But the NYSAIS’ diversity symposium has a workshop geared toward repackaging DEI at elite NYC K-12s under a different name but with the same goals and ideals.
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