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A Muslim employee of Los Angeles Unified who sued the district, alleging she was subjected to disparate treatment by a manager who gave favorable treatment to Latino employees and told the plaintiff to get psychological help, can take her case to trial, a judge has ruled.

>> and lets start there. >> and we have to go at the questions of how it is that we recognize again the fact that the test process, the test prep process, but also the opportunity to learn, which is the most important part of this, is impacted by wealth. >> i hope when this story of this scandal passes, we are really still having that story, because the number of people affected by this scandal is miniscule compared to the number of qualified students who will not get a place in a college that t...

Graduation. we are a society that pretends to care about education but not so much the education of other peoples children. >> reporter: giving teachers a raise, thats kamala harriss big idea. harry smith, nbc news, west columbia, south carolina. >> joining me now is someone with vast experience on this issue, chief of the educational opportunity section of the civil rights department at the department of justice under president obama. good to see you again. >> good to see you too. >> lets talk ...

Diversity inclusion. try to address segregation and the divides in this country is not something it wants to pursue. for that reason i think of it as part of this longer term effort to divide and to separate and thats part of the kinds of policies weve been seeing over the last couple weeks. >> thank you very much for joining me on this. shes the former chief of the educational opportunity section of the civil rights division at the department of justice. affirmative action isnt the only thing t...

A woman who played a role in the drafting of the guidance when she served as the chief of the educational opportunity section of the civil rights division during the obama administration. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> this is a world in which people want to think about this in terms of theres either needs blind or affirmative action, but the truth is somewhere in the middle that people still get into universities on the basis of their merits but certain things are c...

Opportunity section that day in and day out enforces our federal civil rights anti-discrimination laws. this is a position in the political front office because it is part of a political agenda that has been, you know, quite active in this country for some time. >> and you -- "the new york times" piece that came out tonight quotes at least one activist an anti-affirmative activist. this is something welcome for those who oppose affirmative action and its a long time coming. is there anything in ...

Short notice to come in. and i just want to get fifrs of all your reaction to this news that there is going to be this special project in the civil rights division to potentially sue universities for what they consider to be discrimination against white applicants. >> look. i think its part of a trend of seeing civil rights laws turn on their head and being used to advance an agenda that they certainly were not created for. and that is why youre not seeing career lawyers -- youre not seeing this...

About treaties or laws. its got to happen faster, and we dont realize it. were sitting 25 years. are you kidding? thats way too late. we need tomorrow. >> yesterday. >> yesterday. and we just dont seem to be able to get it until we get hit with an incredible storm, and then, yeah, this is kind of bad. then, you know, it gets better. you know, if it snows, people go, theres no global warming. we have two feet of snow in new england. you know? >> thats why i think actually the economic piece is so...