NYC’s Top Private Schools Gathering for Woke DEI-Focused ‘Diversity Symposium’ Aimed at Kids as Young as 4

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?”

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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.

The workshop, called “Reclaiming Belonging in the Classroom: Equity as the Universal Design for Teachers and Schools,” acknowledges that “equity language” has become “increasingly politicized,” and pledges to “reclaim equity work” inside classrooms by “framing DEI as Universal Design for Learning (UDL).”

Another workshop called “The Belonging Lab: A Hands-On Design Studio for Story, Structure and Courageous Dialogue” describes itself as inviting “participants to dig into African indigenous knowledge systems long ignored or undervalued, remembering how communities sustained wisdom, governance, healing and education outside of books and beyond educational colonial structures.”

The opening workshop of the event touts it “invites educators and school leaders to explore equity and inclusion as core instructional and organizational practices, not add-ons.”

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