The 1776 Project Foundation believes the dated policies “are racially discriminatory in their purpose and effect.”
Conservative group 1776 Project Foundation is back, and this time it is suing the Los Angeles Unified School District over claims that its desegregation policy— dating back decades—pushes discrimination against white students, USA Today reports.
It also alleges Middle Eastern students are classified as white by the school district and should be “part of the disfavored group, as are others who fall on the wrong side of the District’s bizarre racial and ethnic line-drawing.”
While the Los Angeles school district remains one of the most segregated in the country, according to the New York Times, group founder and conservative political consultant Ryan James Girdusky labels the policy as “the most blatant example of racial discrimination by a major school district in this country.”
The policy came about as a way to address the “harms of segregation” such as low academic achievement and self-esteem, lack of access to post-secondary opportunities, interracial hostility and intolerance, and overcrowded conditions. But now that is potentially at risk.
The suit comes as the Trump administration war on diversity, equity, and inclusion continues.
“Los Angeles Unified remains firmly committed to ensuring all students have meaningful access to services and enriching educational opportunities,” a district spokesperson said. But 1776 Project president,Aiden Buzzetti feels the court order isn’t “relevant anymore to the present day, and it is currently inflicting present-day harms.”
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Source: Black Enterprise
