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Supreme Court will not review Thomas Jefferson high school s admissions policy
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Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia drops in U S News Ranking
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essay and portrait sheet. the fourth circuit court of appeals upheld the admissions policy after a u.s. district judge had struck it down. do you think the supreme court will take this up? and based on the decision on u.n.c. chapel hill and harvard, do you think the supreme court will side with your argument? the district court did rule that there was discrimination and intent and while the majority of the fourth circuit ruled that it completely discounted the racial motivation, that is why this case is so important that we should not allow proxy discrimination because racial, underlying racial motivation is very important. so-called race neutral factors are not really. it is anything but. it is racially motivated and the coalition believes it s a form of modern redlining when you
Supreme Court petitioned to hear Thomas Jefferson admissions case
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U.S. News and World Report ranked it as America’s best overall high school.
It also educates a substantial racial minority population: 70 percent of TJ’s students are Asian-Americans many of them children of immigrants.
You might think progressive education officials would celebrate this. Instead, they have decided to jettison the school’s famously tough admissions test in favor of a “holistic” (i.e., subjective and arbitrary) system that will permit officials to reject Asian-American students in favor of less-deserving students who belong to other racial categories.
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Under the new rules, Fairfax will first identify all eighth-graders who meet certain academic criteria: those who achieve an unweighted GPA of at least 3.5 while taking Algebra I or a higher-level math class, in addition to math and science honors courses and either an English or social studies honors course.