A legal activist group is asking the Supreme Court to take up a new challenge to the role of race in school admissions, this time in one of the nation’s top high schools. The libertarian Pacific Legal Foundation on Monday asked the high court to hear a case on how Thomas Jefferson High School for…
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.
JMU President Jonathan Alger, who played a key role in two Supreme Court cases when he was working at the University of Michigan that dealt with similar issues to the
When the Supreme Court cut affirmative action out of college admissions programs Thursday, it did not outlaw the goal of achieving diversity, but it set a new “race-neutral” standard for considering applicants.