University of California violates civil rights of disadvantaged students by requiring SAT for admission, lawsuits say
LOS ANGELES - The University of California is violating state civil rights laws by requiring applicants to take the SAT or ACT, standardized tests that unlawfully discriminate against disabled, low-income, multilingual and underrepresented minority students, two lawsuits filed Tuesday allege.
The lawsuits, filed on behalf of the Compton Unified School District, four students and five community organizations, demand that the 10-campus UC system eliminate the testing requirement. Any decision by UC to drop the tests - as some prominent UC officials themselves are urging - would play an outsized
