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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) A conservative legal group is suing a northern Virginia school district for discriminating against Asian Americans by overhauling the admissions process at a selective.
It all started with an email.
Last summer, as George Floyd’s death rocked the nation and COVID-19 kept many Fairfax County Public Schools students at home, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology principal Dr. Ann Bonitatibus sent an email urging students and parents to “think of the privileges you hold that others may not.”
Fairfax County, Va., is certainly privileged, with a median household income of nearly $54,000 and a population in which more than 60 percent hold a college degree or higher. It’s also home to Thomas Jefferson High School, better known as TJ. The No. 1-ranked public high school in the nation, TJ attracts the most gifted STEM students in northern Virginia.
Lawsuit says new Thomas Jefferson HS admissions policy discriminates against Asian-Americans
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A lawsuit against Fairfax County Public Schools alleges that changes in the admissions process at an elite northern Virginia high school were made to purposely reduce the number of Asian-American students accepted.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (FOX 5 DC) - A lawsuit against Fairfax County Public Schools alleges that changes in the admissions process at an elite northern Virginia high school were made to purposely reduce the number of Asian-American students accepted.
The Pacific Legal Foundation filed the lawsuit Wednesday over the admissions policies at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria. The plaintiff in the case, Coalition for TJ, is a group of Fairfax County residents, many of whom are Asian-American parents whose children are students or plan to be students at Thomas J
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