DOJ sues LAUSD over race-based program

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division is looking to intervene in a lawsuit that challenges a Los Angeles Unified School District taxpayer-funded program that allegedly uses racial demographics to determine school funding. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California by the 1776 Project Foundation, targets the second-largest school districts, Predominantly Hispanic, Black, Asian, and Other, or PHBAO Program, alleging that it violates federal and state law. According to the complaint, the PHBAO Program categorizes student residents within the LA school district into two groups: “Anglo,” meaning white, and non-Anglo. Roughly 90% of its schools are given "special" funding as predominantly non-White schools, the complaint states. “Treating Americans equally is not a suggestion — it is a core constitutional guarantee that educational institutions must follow,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi in a news release. Th