A California school may lose teachers and funding for having too many white students

Parents of students at a Los Angeles middle school are livid that an increase in white students has obligated them to give up funding, potentially cutting teaching staff and/or increasing class sizes, reports KABC Los Angeles.

The rule causing the change dates back to the 1970s. As the Los Angeles Unified School District worked to desegregate schools, court orders helped impose a rule that schools with a white student population of under 30 percent would receive additional funding.

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The rule’s still in place, and KABC Los Angeles is reporting that a North Hollywood Middle School is finding that out the hard way. Parents recently received a letter from the Los Angeles County Unified School District notifying them of the planned cut. The district, according to KABC, notes that the school has been above the 30 percent threshold for several years.

The Los Angeles Unified School District has amended the rule somewhat, using a new spending formula that takes number of students into account. Though that blunts the impact of the rule, the race-based calculation remains, and KABC says cuts will still happen.