Some federal lawmakers are asking the Trump administration to reconsider ordering Broward schools to end a program focused on empowering Latino youth, saying the demand was based on a “grossly inadequate and incomplete investigation.”

Four Democratic U.S. representatives who represent Broward — Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Jared Moskowitz, Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick and Frederica Wilson — reject an assertion by the federal government that the Utah-based Latinos in Action discriminates against non-Latino students. They say the program should be saved.

They are sending a letter to U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon that is co-signed by the state’s four other Democratic members of Congress: Lois Frankel of West Palm Beach, Maxwell Frost of Orlando, Darren Soto of Kissimmee and Kathy Cast

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