LIVERMORE — A scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is using something that students love — cell phones — to teach them about physics.
An elite Virginia high school that consistently ranked as America's top public high school has slipped in the national rankings this year amid a legal battle over its admissions procedures.
A legal activist group has petitioned the Supreme Court to hear a case involving race-based admissions policies at an elite public high school in Virginia. What the case is about: The Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) is challenging the admissions policies at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, which adopts what the school board claims to be race-neutral criteria to achieve a diverse student body. The PLF is representing the Coalition for TJ, a group consisting of mostly Asian American parents, for free.
Plaintiffs challenging race-based admissions at Thomas Jefferson High School and free-speech codes at Virginia Tech are seeking Supreme Court. intervention in pair of Virginia education lawsuits.
virginia, we went through a lot of litigation against the school board who basically had watered down the education of the stem magnet school, thomas jefferson high school for science and technology by getting rid of the race-lined standardized tests. the real problem that they are hiding is the education in the primary, the elementary and the middle school, the science education is so abysmal that you know, students are not ready to compete for, you know, very rigorous education. so and our our litigation, which was overruled in the fourth circuit court of appeals, hoping to file a certification by august 21st and the supreme court, and the reason this our case is so important is because our school board uses used so-called very insidious