Trump DoJ bids to join lawsuit alleging LA schools discriminate against a new minority: white students'

"For decades, the Los Angeles Unified School District has classified its schools based on the proportion of enrolled students who aren't white. In a city where more than two-thirds of residents identify as Hispanic, Black or Asian, that meant a vast majority were found to have extraordinarily diverse student bodies. And in an effort to combat segregation, the school district has afforded those diverse schools with smaller class sizes and other benefits."

"But last month, a conservative group sued the school district, saying the decades-old program has become a mechanism of overt discrimination against a new minority: white students. That group, called the 1776 Project Foundation, hopes to end the program and vindicate the American ideal of racial equality. These policies are not just unfair they're unconstitutional, Aiden Buzzetti, the president of the 1776 Project Foundation, said in a statement in January."

LAUSD labels schools with student bodies that are more than 70% non-white as PHBAO and grants those schools benefits such as smaller class sizes to address segregation. The district serves nearly 377,000 students, with roughly 73% Latino, 7% Black, 3.5% Asian and 10% white. The 1776 Project Foundation sued, arguing the long-established classification has become a system of racial favoritism that excludes white students from equal opportunity. The Justice Department's civil rights division filed to intervene, stating students should not be classified or treated differently because of their race and emphasizing equal treatment as a constitutional guarantee.

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