Tag: DEI

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Some things you need to know

By: Diane Benjamin https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2026-04-15/isu-takes-part-in-campaign-to-recruit-teachers-from-other-career-fields . In other words, if you are WHITE – don’t apply. Teaching skills, including the ability to connect with students, won’t be considered. DEI discrimination is alive and well in Illinois. The lie that students can’t learn from someone with a different skin color is evil. https://www.wglt.org/illinois/2026-04-14/house-speaker-backs-millionaires-tax-but-democrats-split-over-how-much-to-devote-to-property-tax-relief . The ruling party […]

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How to Win Elections by Krystle Able

By: Diane Benjamin Below is the playbook the far left uses to win elections. Show up everywhere, act like you are everybody’s best friend, pretend being elected isn’t about obtaining power, and saying whatever you have to for votes. See Abby Scott: https://blnnews.com/2025/11/25/bloomington-%f0%9f%a4%a6%e2%99%80%ef%b8%8f/ Of course Abby and her husband Corey Beirne are friends of Krystle’s. […]

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Normal Community Report Card

By: Diane Benjamin Last night I had a comment from a person I didn’t post. The writer claimed Matt Chapman was a great teacher who helped a son a lot. This person also stated Chapman wears shirts with political messages to spur classroom discussions. That person failed to notice not every student at NCHS is […]

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What a Waste of Money

By: Diane Benjamin The City of Bloomington is now dreaming up ways to keep discriminatory DEI policies by calling them other names: https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-08-12/city-of-bloomington-to-host-a-free-symposium-discussing-the-future-of-inclusion-and-access Mentioned in the story: (What happened to the .gov extension?) All of the salaries came from OpenTheBooks.com. If you haven’t tried the new format, you should! Michael Hurt salary in 2024: $121,804.15 […]

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ISU’s DEI Practices Under Scrutiny: A Closer Look

By: Diane Benjamin If you missed yesterday’s story, read it now: https://blnnews.com/2025/08/05/bloomington-quit-celebrating-mlk-day/ Many of the leaders of this Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion event are associated with Illinois State University. That is important to remember while reading this story: https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-08-05/isu-to-digest-u-s-attorney-generals-message-on-unlawful-dei ISU is figuring out how to comply with demands to end unlawful discrimination. The US Attorney […]

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Bloomington: Quit celebrating MLK Day

By: Diane Benjamin The City of Bloomington obviously doesn’t believe in Martin Luther King’s vision of not judging people by the color of their skin. It appears they think no person of color is capable of succeeding on their own merits. In the latest version of expanding government and wasting money on non-essential events, see […]

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“Hopeful”?

By: Diane Benjamin Are you “hopeful” knowing this guy teaches at Unit 5 and serves on the County Board? Are you “hopeful” knowing his wife was just elected to the Bloomington City Council? . Woke and mad is a winning message? Are you “hopeful” seeing this? Diversity is just a talking point. The 2 Wards […]

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What Unit 5 is Teaching the Teachers – Part 2

Below is a summary document compiled from some of the files I received by FOIA. Teachers are REQUIRED to participate in these trainings. Note all the WOKE (Marxists) ideology and buzz words included. The referenced files are below. You are going to vote to give them more money? 🤦‍♀️ Don’t miss pages 3 and 4.

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District 87 teaching DEI: Setting kids up for failure

By: Diane Benjamin See this document obtained by FOIA from District 87: That document is a training course for teachers – Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) The links were disabled by District 87 because the truth hurts. The video below is part of this document however. District 87 used a video with cartoon drawings to […]

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2 Things you need to know

By: Diane Benjamin 1) Krystle Able pretends to love Diversity and Inclusiveness. If you are pro-life and/or a Christian you aren’t included in her world. She proves frequently she is unfit for any public office. The real extremists are those who judge people based on the color of their skin. That is what DEI does. […]

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Schools that continue DEI will lose federal funding

By: Diane Benjamin H/T Two readers who have been sending information. I’ve got a LOT more information, but start here. Executive Order on Education: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/ending-radical-indoctrination-in-k-12-schooling/ Indoctrination funded by the Department of Education – Over $1 billion: https://defendinged.org/investigations/granted/ This is what the money was used for, not education: Illinois Schools listed as receiving funds, The Regional […]

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LA and Bloomington: Progressive Ideology

By: Diane Benjamin The destruction from the fires in California was predicted. If whatever media you listen to hasn’t played clips proving that find a new media source. This is what part of Pacific Palisades looks like now: . Santa Ana Winds happen every year. Dead trees and dry brush fuel fires. Lack of water […]

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Did Unit 5 Dump DEI?

By: Diane Benjamin April 2024: Today:

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More Elect Socialists you get Socialism

By: Diane Benjamin Bloomington Committee of the Whole agenda for tonight: https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/cityblm/4a82862a-5bc1-11ee-ae13-0050569183fa-d854eb82-3702-4140-9de6-ac3a8e3f379d-1720798851.pdf See this item for discussion: Presentation and discussion on the use of Project Labor Agreements Pandering to funders of local campaigns and get out the vote efforts: It gets worse, DEI is proposed to advance businesses based on skin color and gender. No, […]

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DEI Bloomington

By: Diane Benjamin There was a Township meeting before the Council meeting, Council doesn’t start until 59:00 on the video. This item on the Consent Agenda was pulled before the meeting: . The documentation says this Review Board hasn’t had a case since August of 2011 after being established in 2011, but that didn’t keep […]

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5 things to know

By: Diane Benjamin 1) Other counties are working to protect their citizens from illegal aliens being dumped on them: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-illinois-migrants-grundy-county-20231228-ohorvkbn6beunfc37clltrfrcu-story.html McLean County has a homeless problem and lack of housing problem. The County Board needs to act before they can’t. https://blnnews.com/2023/12/28/local-election-issue-illegal-immigration/ Even Chris Koos knows housing here isn’t available: https://www.25newsnow.com/2023/12/29/housing-crunch-would-get-even-tighter-if-migrants-come-town-says-area-mayor/ When Trump was president Koos defended Normal’s sactuary status: https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2018/05/normal-mayor-defends-citys-sanctuary-city-status-and-responds-i-am-an-animal-to-president-trump.html 2) […]

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6 things

By: Diane Benjamin 1) The smoke from Canada is back: 2) The company Bloomington hired to do the $750,000 downtown study is all in on DEI. https://www.cmtengr.com/dei/ The report is due in August. The City keeps using recommendations from old outdated reports like Bring It On Bloomington and the Downtown Bloomington Task Force. How many […]

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Gun Violence Commission Hypocrisy

By: Diane Benjamin Since Bloomington has a “woke” police chief and this is Illinois where criminals are coddled (Safe-T Act), stopping gun violence won’t be easy. Asking nicely isn’t going to work. “Woke”: https://blnnews.com/2023/06/21/problem-identified/ Was anyone FIRED over the failed gun safe giveaway when the documentation clearly says FIRE SAFE? https://blnnews.com/2023/06/14/dont-store-guns-in-the-free-gun-safe-you-got-from-the-bloomington-il-police/ DEI means incompetence is […]

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Unit 5 is hiring Marxists:

By: Diane Benjamin Dr. Shelvin must believe people of color can not succeed without you paying to “empower disenfranchised communities”. She’s black and successful, how did she do it? DEI pays well – $35 an hour. I enjoy the leftist names for teaching Marxist ideology: Freedom School. Unit 5 doesn’t currently have “quality instruction”? Freedom […]

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Bloomington’s torturous meeting

By: Diane Benjamin I keep forgetting to mention the City has a new website. It is much more functional, content remains to be seen. The last one was impossible to search quickly for the information wanted. See 2:19:56. Bloomington already has it’s second Deputy City Manager. Corporate Council Jeff Jurgens is taking the job. Tim […]

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Spending $290.1 million: Bloomington

By: Diane Benjamin The only reason to have TIME LIMITS for Council discussion is to limit discussion. It started under Tari Renner, Mboka is continuing it. Common Sense should tell your elected officials discussions should take as long as somebody has something to say. Instead they stop and have a vote to extend the time. […]

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Why I oppose the Unit 5 referendum

By: Diane Benjamin Listen to Chandler and Swan Sunday at 7:00am or the replay at 5:00pm. Cities 92.9 – we discuss some of the below. It should be on spotify too. Unit 5’s superintendent uses PRONOUNS in her signature. Their job is to educate not cater to ridiculous ideology. Pronouns virtual signal to the far […]

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Bloomington: Subverting government with Equality

By: Diane Benjamin There is a short version of the below going around social media, this is an 11 minute version. Democracy always ends in tyranny, that’s why America was created as a Republic instead. The video is from 1966 and nails what is happening today. Democracy wasn’t on the November ballot, authoritarianism was. TAKE […]

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Who is behind the County going woke?

By: Diane Benjamin Follow up to this story: https://blnnews.com/2022/07/02/mclean-county-goes-woke-without-a-vote/ I FOIA’d the County trying to find out. Start here, two employees include their pronouns on emails: Cassy Taylor, County Administrator, sent the email to all employees requiring them to take the DEI training. She didn’t use pronouns or her last name. Amy Baker was hired […]

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Unit 5 and Social Studies

By: Diane Benjamin Parent should be able to trust the schools they send their kids to. Unit 5 has proved they aren’t trustworthy. Remember the DEI employee cackling about what she gets to do? How about their failure to save the training video for the 47 hires to fan out to all the schools and […]

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Unit 5 is WOKE, Wake up Parents

By: Diane Benjamin Quote from this story: https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/america-first-attorneys-demand-rural-iowa-school-stops-indoctrinating “School should prepare students for citizenship in our constitutional republic and colorblind society, not turn impressionable children into social justice warriors who view all that is good and just through the distorted lens of race, sex, gender, power, and politics.” This is a screen shot of what […]

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Update: Fights at BHS almost daily

See the video here: https://rumble.com/embed/v112eta/?pub=n1sn7 By: Diane Benjamin This is what students who attend Bloomington High School might encounter almost daily. Barry Reilly knows and as of last night hasn’t responded to the person who sent him the unblurred version. The aggressor should be kicked out of school. So far she hasn’t been. Creating a […]

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Found on the ISU campus

By: Diane Benjamin The author of this email is with the College of Nursing at ISU. I don’t know if this course is required or optional. This is teaching Critical Race Theory: The instructor is also employed at ISU as a specialist in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The goal of the course is to teach […]

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Unit 5 – Unlocked links

By: Diane Benjamin See this link on the Unit 5 website: https://www.unit5.org/domain/3645 Go to the bottom of that page: Recognizing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work in our Schools Formerly some of the links inside the recognitions didn’t work – they said request access. I FOIA’d that information, the links now work. What were they hiding? […]

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A little more on “Equity Audits”

By: Diane Benjamin More on this story: https://blnnews.com/2021/11/26/unit-5s-equity-audit-waste/ As reported, the Urbana School District has and Equity Task Force. That group recommended hiring Systemic Educational Equity LLC. The two people pushing for that hire were Superintendent Dr. Jennifer Ivory-Tatum and their very first director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. The Urbana DEI director is none […]

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District 87 searching for a DEI Superintendent

By Diane Benjamin District 87 School Board may have already made their choice to replace Barry Reilly, the timeline for making a final decisions shows this week. Here are two of the qualifications they were looking for: The consultant surveyed administration, teachers, students, non-parent community members, support staff, and the Board of Education and then […]

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Meet Dr. Ivette Dubiel

By: Diane Benjamin Sounds like a tragic start to life! She was poor but somehow managed to become of Doctor in most likely Education. She also has three Masters Degrees, in other words she is a product of the education system at the highest level. Pretending not to be a capitalist, Dr. Dubiel started her […]

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The problem with schools

By: Diane Benjamin Start with what most people would agree with: Students should to be taught how to think, not what to think. That means the cultural and political views of teachers should never enter the classroom. If your kids know who their teacher voted for, where they stand on abortion, or what activism they […]

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Equity?

By: Diane Benjamin H/t a reader Does EQUITY apply to sports in District 87 and Unit 5? If: Every child who wants to play can’t, where’s the EQUITY? Every child doesn’t get equal playing time, where’s the EQUITY? Why is the score kept? Doesn’t that violate EQUITY? If EQUITY doesn’t apply to sports, why does […]