that fall, my son had gotten commended student award, they kept it a secret from me and he is now a sophomore in college. i m paying out of state tuition. i m on the payment plan, you know, as a single man, minority mom, i want to make this real for people. this isn t, you know, just equity policy without dabbling. bill: apparently affected upwards of 1,000 students and the schools apparently paid an equity consultant $450,000 for nine months of work, what is equitable about denying these students the recognition that they ve earned? nothing. i hope they have another $458,000 to give to her and any other parents that were wronged by this. it s horrible that a school would do this. the kids worked so hard to get these awards and college is so expensive. we need to address and the fact
help. we have reached out to the district for comment. i want to bring in virginia attorney general jason miyares to the conversation. welcome, attorney general. i m glad that you re here. this might not be an obvious connection for some people to think about, the idea of failing to tell the commended students about their recognition and national merit status. and then having a connection for a violation of the virginia human rights act. what is the correlation here? well, this is what we know. we know that fairfax county public schools hired an equity consultant, paid them about 455,000 dollars for nine months of work. and one of their recommendations for the school district was equal outcomes for every student, without exception. that s their words, not mine. and that included a directive that said to get to these outcomes, it may mean treating students possibly unequally. so what we ve seen is over 70%
students at all costs. this overarching effort for equal outcomes is hurting virginia s children. and it s hurting even worse the children that they aspire to help. we have reached out to the district for comment. i want to bring in virginia attorney general jason miyares to the conversation. welcome, attorney general. i m glad that you re here. this might not be an obvious connection for some people to think about, the idea of failing to tell the commended students about the recognition and national merit status. and then having a connection for a violation of the virginia human rights act. what is the correlation here? well, this is what we know. we know that fairfax county public schools hired an equity consultant, pay them a 455,000 thousand dollars for nine months of work. and when their recommendations for the school district was equal outcomes for every student without exception. that s their words, not mine.
the virginia attorney general telling fox news that fairfax county paid a so-called equity consultant $450,000 for less than nine months of work. is that person at the center of this decision? what do we know about that so far? well, that has been reported, and again, i think what i believe is that it is this relentless pursuit of equal outcomes at any cost. equal outcomes for all students that has been preached and it has been trained into administration s and this $450,000 contract is just yet another example. and therefore, it is not surprising to suggest that for this to be pervasive across fairfax county, but also loudoun county and now appears prince william county is something we have to fully investigate. there should be full transparency in these kinds of
at least 13 high schools across three counties have now admitted to it. there might be more. let s bring in virginia attorney general. good to have you here. when this first happened and a mother found out about it just because her husband happened to see the letter on the student s desk at home, you all were told this was just a one-off aberrations. doesn t appear to be the case. no, you are correct, dana. we were told initially it was at one school. one administrative error. we find it is multiple schools. over a dozen in one low kalt. in fairfax from public report. they hired an equity consultant and paid them $450,000 for nine months of work. one of their directives was equal outcomes no matter what, even if it means treating some students purposely uniquely. so we re trying to determine