A Georgia public school district quietly scrubbed its website and altered race-based policies to evade a sweeping federal crackdown on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs, a new watchdog report alleges.The report, released by the Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies (DFI), details how the City Schools of Decatur (CSD) district allegedly "embedded racially discriminatory" DEI ideology throughout its teacher training and curriculum, only to hide the evidence when federal funding was threatened.According to DFI, the small school district located just outside of Atlanta spent millions between 2017 and 2024 on DEI initiatives, staff salaries, and race-focused training.PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SCHOOL HIT WITH CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINT OVER ALLEGEDLY DISCRIMINATORY SCHOLARSHIPSAccording to a new watchdog report, a public school in Georgia allegedly wiped its website and changed race-based policies to avoid a sweeping federal crackdown on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs. (getty)"City Schools of Decatur went to great lengths to enact a racially discriminatory agenda and then hide its unlawful behavior from federal oversight," Paul Zimmerman, Senior Counsel for Policy and Regulatory at DFI, told Fox News Digital."Records show that district leaders were obsessed with racial ‘equity’—to the tune of spending more than $2 million on it—at the expense of actual fairness," Zimmerman added."Training teachers to 'decolonize' the curriculum and to blame achievement gaps on white supremacy is totally unhelpful to the mission of educating students."The report cited a Decaturish report stating CSD "spent about $1.8 million on salaries for equity department staff between 2017 and 2024."The report alleges that CSD trained teachers and administrators using "Beyond Diversity" seminars and "Courageous Conversations About Race" frameworks, which critics say blamed "whiteness" for racial disparities in schools and broader society.Further findings fro...