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    The members of Congress request information from the Acting Under Secretary of Defense regarding the Department of Defense Education Activity's (DoDEA) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts. Specifically, the letter requests documents about the formation of a DoDEA DEI Steering Committee, the "reconfiguration" of the former DEI office, and materials used in DoDEA schools that discuss concepts like critical race theory. The members are concerned that DoDEA is undermining military cohesion and promoting ideologies at odds with the military's tradition of tolerance and integration. They seek the documents by March 13th.

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    The members of Congress request information from the Acting Under Secretary of Defense regarding the Department of Defense Education Activity's (DoDEA) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts. Specifically, the letter requests documents about the formation of a DoDEA DEI Steering Committee, the "reconfiguration" of the former DEI office, and materials used in DoDEA schools that discuss concepts like critical race theory. The members are concerned that DoDEA is undermining military cohesion and promoting ideologies at odds with the military's tradition of tolerance and integration. They seek the documents by March 13th.

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    The members of Congress request information from the Acting Under Secretary of Defense regarding the Department of Defense Education Activity's (DoDEA) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts. Specifically, the letter requests documents about the formation of a DoDEA DEI Steering Committee, the "reconfiguration" of the former DEI office, and materials used in DoDEA schools that discuss concepts like critical race theory. The members are concerned that DoDEA is undermining military cohesion and promoting ideologies at odds with the military's tradition of tolerance and integration. They seek the documents by March 13th.

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    The members of Congress request information from the Acting Under Secretary of Defense regarding the Department of Defense Education Activity's (DoDEA) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts. Specifically, the letter requests documents about the formation of a DoDEA DEI Steering Committee, the "reconfiguration" of the former DEI office, and materials used in DoDEA schools that discuss concepts like critical race theory. The members are concerned that DoDEA is undermining military cohesion and promoting ideologies at odds with the military's tradition of tolerance and integration. They seek the documents by March 13th.

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    February 28, 2024

    The Honorable Ashish S. Vazirani


    Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness
    U.S. Department of Defense
    1000 Defense Pentagon
    Washington, DC 20301

    Dear Acting Under Secretary Vazirani:

    The transparency non-profit Open the Books recently released a report regarding the formation
    of a Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) “DEI Steering Committee.” 1 The
    creation of such a committee is greatly concerning.

    In response to a public outcry over the creation of a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) office
    within DoDEA, Director Thomas Brady claimed the DEI office would be eliminated under a so-
    called “reconfiguration of talent.”2 The only “reconfiguration” that occurred, however, was the
    dispersal of DEI officials throughout the DoDEA bureaucracy. Former DoDEA DEI Chief Kelisa
    Wing was exposed for her public social media posts calling herself a “woke administrator” and
    decrying the “CAUdacity” of “white folx.”3 Ms. Wing was merely reassigned to a different unit
    after the public became aware of her abhorrent and bigoted comments.4

    American servicemembers deserve to know that their sons and daughters are receiving the
    highest quality education. Their children, like all American children, deserve to be treated with
    the utmost respect, without exclusion or marginalization based on immutable characteristics. Our
    armed forces always have been a melting pot of all races, cultures, and religions— much like our
    country. Undermining the cohesion of our armed forces through the promotion of DEI ideology
    and “critical theory” is at odds with our military’s strong tradition of tolerance and integration.

    1
    PENTAGON'S SECRET PUSH TO INSTITUTIONALIZE DEI IN ITS K-12 PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Open the
    Books (February 8, 2024), https://www.openthebooks.com/assets/1/6/Pentagons_Secret_Push_to_Institutionalize_D
    EI _in_its_K-12_Public_Schools2.pdf
    2
    Hannah Grossman, Pentagon disbands DEI unit after chief accused of 'racism' against Whites, injects agenda
    deeper into agency, FOX NEWS (Mar. 31, 2023), https://www.foxnews.com/media/pentagon-disbands-dei-unit-chief-
    accused-racism-against-whites-injects-agenda-deeper-agency.
    3
    Hannah Grossman, 'Woke' Department of Defense equity chief writes anti-White posts: 'Exhausted with these white
    folx', FOX NEWS (Sept. 13, 2022), https://www.foxnews.com/media/woke-department-defense-equity-chief-writes-
    anti-white-posts-exhausted-white-folx.
    4
    DoD Reassigns School Official Kelisa Wing and Disbands CRT-Promoting DEI Office, CENTER FOR MILITARY
    READINESS (May 2, 2023), https://www.cmrlink.org/issues/full/dod-reassigns-school-official-kelisa-wing-and-
    disbands-crtpromoting-dei-office.
    The Department of Defense (DOD) ignored the January 30, 2023, request for documents made
    by the House Committee on Armed Services. That is unacceptable. A request for document
    production concerning the hiring process of an individual is not void if that individual has been
    reassigned to a different position. We have a responsibility to the American people to expose the
    steps DoDEA has taken to hide its DEI activities from the public.

    Please provide responses to the following questions and the requested documents no later than
    March 13, 2024:
    1. Is the DoDEA “DEI Steering Committee” a federal advisory committee as defined by the
    Federal Advisory Committee Act?
    2. What differentiates the DoDEA “DEI Steering Committee” from the Defense Advisory
    Committee on Diversity and Inclusion?5
    3. A full, comprehensive response to the January 30, 2023, request for document production
    DoDEA received from the Committee on Armed Services.
    4. All documents and communications discussing the “reconfiguration of talent” from the
    DEI office, including a list of all former DEI office employees and their job titles within
    that office, as well as current job titles and area of reassignment for any employee who is
    no longer assigned to the office.
    a. This request includes, but is not limited to, all communications discussing the
    reassignment of Ms. Kelisa Wing, as well as any and all documents and
    communications indicating whether DOD officials were aware of Ms. Wing’s
    racist comments prior to her hiring as chief DEI officer.
    5. All documents and communications discussing the creation of the DEI Steering
    Committee, including a list of all members of the committee, their job titles, timelines of
    each member’s involvement, and committee roles and responsibilities. This request
    includes any charter documents or other foundational documents discussing the form and
    function of the committee.
    6. All instructional materials used by DoDEA schools that were produced, recommended, or
    approved by Ms. Kelisa Wing, her office, or DEI-focused employees anywhere in DOD.
    7. All material used by DOD to inform servicemembers of their confidential rights as
    parents of students enrolled in DoDEA schools.
    8. All materials used by DoDEA, whether internally or externally, that involve discussion of
    “critical theory,” “critical race theory,” “racism,” “antiracism,” “equity,” “gender binary,”
    “color-blindness,” “systems of oppression,” or “sexual identity,” including all syllabi,
    instructional materials, and teaching plans that include such words or phrases.
    9. All documents produced by or for the DEI Steering Committee, including email
    communications, reports, and meeting minutes and transcripts.

    Should you have any questions, please contact Adam Lemon with the Office of Congressman
    Jim Banks at (202) 225-4436.

    5
    Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, DEFENSE HUMAN RESOURCES ACTIVITY,
    https://www.dhra.mil/DACODAI.
    We look forward to your timely response.

    Sincerely,

    _________________
    _________________
    Jim Banks
    Ronny L. Jackson
    Member of Congress
    Member of Congress

    _________________ _________________
    Mary Miller Troy E. Nehls
    Member of Congress Member of Congress

    _________________ _________________
    Pat Fallon Erin Houchin
    Member of Congress Member of Congress

    __________________ ___________________
    Marjorie Taylor Greene Michael Waltz
    Member of Congress Member of Congress
    _________________
    Jeff Duncan
    Member of Congress

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