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‘Administrators direct teachers to inform ONLY African American parents and students about these opportunities, leaving other students unaware.’
Officials in the Fresno Unified School District in California, with 71,000 students, have set up a number of academic support programs for them.
Only they are “marketed” only to black students.
Which has prompted the Pacific Legal Foundation to launch a legal challenge to the district for “unlawfully gating” access to the student help programs.
“It is unfair and unconstitutional to gate access to valuable educational programs based on a child’s race, regardless of whether the exclusion is explicit or implicit,” explained PLF lawyer Wilson Freeman.
“Taxpayer-funded academic support programs should be available to all students based on need, not race. FUSD’s practices violate multiple legal protections, including the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, the Civil Rights Act, and California’s Proposition 209.”
The district, in fact, has an “Office of African American Academic Acceleration,” to address achievement gaps between black students and others.
That office runs 13 various programs with a $12 million budget, and focuses “on mentoring African American middle and high school students,” the legal team explained.
While the programs lack a specific racial requirement, “they are marketed exclusively to African American students,” the legal challenge charges.
“Administrators direct teachers to inform only African American parents and students about these opportunities, leaving other students unaware.”
The report said Fresno is the state’s third-largest school district, and the “acceleration” office was created back in 2017.
It was “started with a $742,000 budget to mentor African American middle and high school students,” the report said.
“Academic need doesn’t discriminate. It affects students of all races who need extra support to reach their full potential. This includes children whose parents belong to Californians for Equal Rights Foundation (CFER), a nonprofit group that fights for equal treatment under the law,” the legal team explained.
“These parents have children in Fresno schools who could benefit from A4 programs but were either kept unaware of the opportunities or, worse, led to believe they weren’t eligible because they’re not black. The parents are also deeply troubled that the district spends millions in taxpayer dollars on programs that de facto exclude their children for no other reason than skin color.”
The lawyers pointed out the Supreme Court has said, “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”
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