The Department of Justice (DOJ) is stepping into a federal lawsuit accusing nation’s second-largest school district of illegally sorting students by race to determine funding and school admissions.
The Civil Rights Division filed a motion to intervene Wednesday in the case against Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), according to a DOJ press release. The lawsuit targets the district’s Predominantly Hispanic, Black, Asian, and Other (PHBAO) program, which classifies neighborhoods as “Anglo” or non-Anglo and distributes resources accordingly.