The Trump administration has ordered Seminole County Public Schools to shutter a student leadership class intended to help Latino students graduate high school, saying the district “may be discriminating based on race.”

SCPS informed parents and students Friday that the “Latinos in Action” courses, offered at 10 of the district’s high schools in partnership with a nationwide nonprofit, will cease. But the district will create a new program called “Leaders in Action,” which will seek to promote some of the same goals of service and leadership.

Broward County is also shutting down its Latinos in Action courses after receiving a similar directive from the Trump administration, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported last week. The Orange and Osceola school districts, both of which also p

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