‘All We Ask Is To Be Treated Equally’: New York Lawsuit Alleges Discrimination Against Asian-Americans in Education
The Supreme Court’s ruling banning affirmative action in higher education ‘is a principle that should apply to all manner of educational programs at large,’ the plaintiff’s attorney tells the Sun, adding that it’s ‘what we’re hoping to set a precedent for.’
A federal lawsuit is underway in New York challenging a decades-old science and technology program for violating the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause, in a case that seeks to more firmly apply the Supreme Court’s ruling banning affirmative action in higher education to the K-12 level.
Chu et. al v. Rosa alleges that the state’s Science and Technology Entry Program — which allocates funding to 56 higher education institutions statewide to provide initiatives that enhance “academic enrichment in science and mathematics” to 7th-12th graders — is racially discriminatory. If white or Asian students want to apply, they are only eligible if they can prove they are “economically disadvantaged,” according to the STEP guidelines. Yet minorities — defined exclusively as African Americans, Hispanics, Alaskan Natives and American Indians — are eligible no matter what their economic status is.
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