Commentary: The myth of anti-white discrimination in L.A. schools - and the politics behind it

"As my colleague Howard Blume wrote, a legal challenge with an anonymous LAUSD parent mentioned is seeking to dismantle protections for disadvantaged students of color that were originally put in place to comply with a court order meant to lessen the harms of segregation in our schools. To put it simply, the Los Angeles Unified School District gives more resources to schools that are more than 70% non-white, which is the vast majority - about 600."

""It is a racist distraction," Tyrone Howard, a UCLA professor of education, told me. "Look, I want to be nuanced here," Howard said. "I am sure there must be some white Americans somewhere in our country who have and are experiencing discrimination in some form. Surely there must be, but they're not at all the overwhelming majority of citizens who are on the receiving end of race-based discrimination, not hardly.""

Los Angeles Unified allocates additional resources to schools that are more than 70% non-white, affecting roughly 600 schools. A conservative legal challenge, citing an anonymous LAUSD parent, argues that about 100 schools are excluded from these resources and therefore face larger class sizes and fewer opportunities. The lawsuit frames the funding policy as discrimination against white and Middle Eastern students, though Middle Eastern students lack explicit representation in the case. Protections for disadvantaged students of color originated from a court order intended to reduce segregation harms. Critics call the lawsuit a racist distraction while acknowledging parental frustrations about equitable public schooling.

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