No child is preordained by their class or by their gender or by their ethnic group or by their home life to fail.

BBC: You are in: Education

They have been urging states to give legal rights to workers who do not already fit into a protected class based on race, gender or national origin.

WSJ: Growing push to halt workplace bullying

The city said that under a federal civil rights law known as Title VII, employers must ban actions such as promotion tests that would have a "disparate impact" on a protected class, such as a specified race or gender.

CNN: High court backs firefighters in reverse discrimination suit