Fams join suit vs. elite-school deseg

Several city families have joined a group of organizations in a federal lawsuit to stop Mayor de Blasio’s program to desegregate elite public high schools.

The parents joined the Asian American Coalition for Education and other groups in the suit filed in Manhattan Federal Court against de Blasio and schools Chancellor Richard Carranza on Thursday.

Lawyers from the Sacramento, Calif.-based nonprofit Pacific Legal Group are litigating the case, which seeks to halt de Blasio’s program to admit more black and Hispanic kids to the city’s eight specialized high schools.

The group of schools includes the Bronx High School of Science and Manhattan’s Stuyvesant High School.

They are dominated by Asian and white teens and enroll very few black and Hispanic students.

The Christa McAuliffe Parent Teacher Organization voted to support the suit in November and is a party in the Pacific Legal Group’s suit.

Christa McAuliffe enrolls mostly Asian students and is the biggest feeder middle school to the specialized high schools.