Adam Guillette, Accuracy in Media on Kansas State's DEI Programs | 3-16-26

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1:00From Overland Park to Parkville, you're listening to Mundo in the morning on 95.7 FM, KCMO Talk Radio. So this started going viral over the last few days and some of you sent this to me. And I wanted to make sure that we got on the guy who was a part of the investigation with accuracy media. He's joining us on KCMO. Adam Gillette is here. I want to play some of this on an investigation that he's his team did into Kansas State. Were they caught an advisor at K state on camera, saying basically while they're supposed to per state law, knock it off with the DEI nonsense, they are still very much full steam ahead. Hi, Miss Thier. I'm Adam Gillette with accuracy and media. We received a report that your department was pushing DEI and defiance of state laws. Is that true? Um, not to my knowledge.

2:02Well, you would sit here in this interview. I'm learned that the philosophy here is like while they are saying that they're going to take it away, or like changing the name of things, they're still doing. Okay. Well, I was really just wondering why did that as some other schools, but yeah, we're definitely, yeah. And our, I mean, education like that's, you can't take it out. No, it's not like not quality teaching. All right, Adam Gillette, accuracy in media, joining us on KCMO. Adam, good morning. Thanks for joining us in Kansas City. First off, how did you come across Kansas State and starting your investigation there for this story? Well, we've been to many universities in many red states across the country. Kansas was the one I was perhaps most looking forward to you because you have perhaps the second best DEI band in the country, much stronger than many of the other ones. So we decided to canvas the state essentially and visit pretty much every public university there.

3:02Okay, so you went to every public university in this state. Basically, wow, as you would expect, there are more videos to come. More from Kansas in particular. There are videos coming from across your state in the near future. You know, what we see again and again at these universities is they change job titles and do the exact same thing or most commonly in the schools of social work, criminology or education. They talk about how the law doesn't really affect curriculum. And as this woman said, quote, you can't take it out. She can't even fathom teaching sociology or criminology or education without pushing the divisive, racist principles of DEI, you know, Kansas wonder why our K through 12 schools have been radicalized. People wonder why, you know, students are getting radicalized in K through 12 schools. It's because of these people who run the education colleges who insist that DEI has to be a part of every facet of education. Adam Gillette is here, accuracy and media president.

4:02So how did you come across this project in general and what led you to Kansas in particular? Was it a tip or was it just a gut feeling or something else? Well, we investigated many K through 12 school districts across the country in red states that banned critical race theory and not surprisingly, administrator after administrator would brag to us about how they break the law, deceive parents, trick parents, circumvent the law. And when these DEI bands went into effect, I figured, well, gosh, if you know these K through 12 principles and administrators who kind of have to answer the parents aren't following the law, the unaccountable radicals of higher ed, I bet they're totally ignoring it. And what we've realized, many people talk about administrative bloat. They have massively increased the amount of administrative staff in these universities. At some universities, they almost outnumber the students and it drives up the cost of college tuition. Well, what we've learned is that these administrators are largely just taxpayer funded activists.

5:06These are the people in your DEI departments, which are now just renamed Department of Belonging. These are the people in the LGBTQ departments. These are the bloated administrative staffers in the sociology education and criminology departments. They are taxpayer funded activists. That's it. If they want to do this stuff, the democratic socialists of America, knock yourself out, but I shouldn't have to pay for it. So as you've gone across the country, when you go to specifically states where this stuff is illegal, like in Kansas, where they passed legislation around this, what do you say to the lawmakers who think that, hey, we did our job, we passed the law, we're all good to go. And then you find out, well, that's not actually true. Yeah, well, the responses have been kind of mixed. Every time we release one of these investigations in North Carolina with a similar ban, the person gets fired. We've gotten a, I guess, a dean of students at UNC Asheville got fired after appearing in our videos, along with five other administrators in North Carolina.

6:06In some states, the politicians kind of cramed their neck to look the other way, because they were busy patting themselves in the back, pretending they solved the problem. And they don't want to acknowledge that their legislation hasn't solved the problem. And to be fair, some of these radicals in Kansas aren't doing anything illegal by pushing it in curriculum, because the Kansas ban allows for it shockingly in curriculum. Now, the argument they use is that it's necessary for accreditation rules. Well, I'm from Florida, we're the third largest population in the country. We were able to write a DEI ban that prohibited it from curriculum. Our law in Florida literally says you're not allowed to promote identity politics. You could talk about communism fascism, DEI in a philosophy class or in a history class maybe, but perhaps not in math class. And you should never be promoting one ideology. We did that in Florida, we stood up to the accreditors, and our universities are still accredited. Why can't Kansas do the same thing? So, Adam, as you investigated Kansas State and other universities here in Kansas,

7:13what do parents need to know about how the DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion curriculum actually ends up being applied in a way that is not as noticeable or not as obvious to parents, taxpayers, and frankly, the politicians who pass the laws. You know, because of the curriculum carve out in your state law, I don't know that it's any less obvious. The primary deception they've had to do is renaming their DEI departments. If you want to get rich, quick skin, get into the business card business, because all these folks just change their job title, change the name of their department, and they continue doing the radical DEI work. But separate from that, the law allows it in curriculum shockingly, so they still push it in every facet of education. And people ask me, how do they push this in every facet? Well, in math classes, for example, and you see this season in K212 schools in Kansas, you may have an algebraic equation in the middle of your page, but there might be a sidebar of your math textbook that says,

8:14how easy was it for you to solve this problem? How difficult was it for other students? What factors might have caused challenges for other students to solve this problem? And that then prompts the teacher or professor who's been trained by a DEI staffer to have a discussion on race in math class and the adverse effects of systemic racism from America, the adverse effects of inherent racism and capitalism in math class. Wow, I mean, like you said, if people wanted to do that stuff in psychology or sociology, I don't like it, but you know, you can weave it in there somewhat organically. But in math class, I don't even know how you get to that point in a math class at them, but you're saying it's far more common than parents and taxpayers probably realize. Well, here's how embedded this DEI stuff is in education in America, right? Fort Worth ISD is one of a dozen school districts in the metropolitan area of Fort Worth. They got a lot of them. It's just one.

9:15They have 10 full-time non-classroom equity staffers in their and Fort Worth ISD. All those people are doing it. I think they've had to redeem their job titles, of course. All they're doing is pushing DEI every day. Well, if that's what they have in Fort Worth, Texas in one school district, what do you think they're doing in universities, which we already know are run by the left and where they're not really accountable to parents who come to back to school night and so forth? These people are radical activists and we fund them with our tax dollars. Man, that is so true. And we're a couple of weeks removed from an area school district getting $400 million in additional funding and bonds for what they call capital improvements. And also we have this going on right now in Kansas, Adam. So this is pretty good timing. You have some of the biggest school districts here in the Kansas City area on the Kansas side saying to the legislature, you guys are shorting us on special education funding and they're crying poor and saying they're going to have to cut all these programs if the state does not give them more money. Mean time to your point, the administrative costs keep going up.

10:17I think you've got a lot of good teachers who are doing this for the right reasons but the leadership in these schools and the boards themselves are not looking out for the taxpayers or the kids or even the teachers. How much of that do you see not just in Kansas but around the country? It's everywhere. You know, I sometimes think that they purposely underpay some of the best teachers. That way they can perennially say we need more money for these teachers. And then they take that money and as you said, they suspended on administrative bloat. You look at how much administrative staffers have grown in these school districts for all of these non classroom positions and it is absolutely out of control. You know, by every objective measure, traditional public education in America fails. You look at the test scores, despite record amounts of money, test scores are consistently down. We now have a generation that is the first generation in modern history that's unequivocally less educated than the generation before them. But what do the school districts do well? Every two weeks without fail, the teachers get paid.

11:19They never goofed that up. And every paycheck without fail, a portion is taken out and given to the unions. They don't mess that up either. And every single election, 99.99% of that money goes to far left candidates. These traditional public schools don't exist by any outside observation as having the purpose of educating children. They insist to take our money and funnel it to far left candidates. If some kids get educated along the way by a few noble teachers, that is just a byproduct, a fortune of byproduct of a broken system. Adam, great work. Adam Gillette is with the accuracy and media group. He's the president. He has this K state investigation up. And you should watch it. You should check it out. Accuracy and media. You can find them on YouTube, watch it there. And you've got more coming with Kansas universities in particular, Adam. So please let us know about that and we'll talk to you again soon. Thank you so much for having me. All right. You know, that's, that's a great line there at the end.

12:20If a few kids get taught along the way by noble teachers, well, so be it. What a shame to think of it as a political movement and operation versus making sure the kids are put first in education. And listen, I do believe in our personal experience, the vast majority of teachers doing it for the right reasons, caring about the kids, want to teach them, want them to learn. But they're pawns in the game. And it's starting to feel more and more like that. They're, they're pawns in the game of politics that is being driven by those at the highest levels on the administrative side and the school board side. And that's, that's a, that is such a shame for not just the kids, but also for the teachers who want to do the right thing and care a lot about these kids across the board every single day.

13:22Now higher ed, that's a, that's a different beast, obviously. But man, you hate to see this stuff going on. And it's pretty prevalent in Kansas. And he says he's got more videos coming from Kansas universities. So we'll keep an eye on them and talk to these folks here at Accuracy and Media and KCMA.