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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 let's 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 they want to, because they don't have legacy, because they don't have sports, because they don't hav...
Graduation. we are a society that pretends to care about education but not so much the education of other people's children. >> reporter: giving teachers a raise, that's kamala harris's 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. >> let's talk about what she said. we are a society which has -- which pretends to care about what teachers ea...
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 that's part of the kinds of policies we've been seeing over the last couple weeks. >> thank you very much for joining me on this. she's the former chief of the educational opportunity section of the civil rights division at the department of justice. affirmative action isn't the only thing the trump administration is going after in the world of higher education. in a new report nbc new...
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 there's 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 considered that allow certain otherwise marginalized groups or groups that have been disadvantaged t...