October 17, 2024—The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board spoke with Managing Attorney John Affeldt in their argument that the Los Angeles Unified School District ‘should have worked harder to’ save the district’s $120 million Black Student Achievement Program after it was targeted and attacked by an east coast-based conservative group.
There are grounds to defend the program, even in California, which bans affirmative action in the public sector. John Affeldt, a managing attorney at the nonprofit civil rights law group Public Advocates, said government agencies are constitutionally allowed to use “race-conscious remedies” to make up for past race-based discrimination. District leaders certainly should be able to do this.
