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Virginia AG Announces Investigation of a Top High School over Withholding Student National Recognition

January 4, 2023
Education & Family NewsFairfax CountyThomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyUS
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ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced on Wednesday that he would investigate the delay in informing students of national recognition at a Virginia high school, a day after the Commonwealth’s Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin formally asked him to do so. “The national merit award is a recognition and such a valuable tool in our…

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Virginia AG Announces Investigation of Top High School Over Withholding Student National Recognition

January 4, 2023
Education & Family NewsFairfax CountyThomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyUS
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ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced on Wednesday that he would investigate the delay in informing students of national recognition at a Virginia high school, a day after the Commonwealth’s Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin formally asked him to do so. “The national merit award is a recognition and such a valuable tool in our…

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School Board Tells Supreme Court TJ High School Admissions Policy Doesn’t Discriminate Against Asian Americans

April 14, 2022
Education & Family NewsJudiciarySupreme CourtThomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyUSVirginia
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The admissions policy of a top-notch magnet school in Virginia isn’t discriminatory toward Asian American students and isn’t attempting to achieve “racial balancing,” the Fairfax County School Board told the Supreme Court in response to an emergency application. The emergency application in Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board, court file 21A590, was filed…

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Federal Judge Allows Racial Discrimination Suit Against Virginia School Board to Go Ahead

May 23, 2021
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A parents’ group may proceed with its lawsuit claiming new admissions policies at an elite public high school in Fairfax County, Virginia, discriminate against Asian-Americans, a federal judge ruled. The civil rights lawsuit, Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board, was filed in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, on March 10 by the Sacramento,…

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