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☆ The SAT and the Supreme Court
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( David Leonhardt | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After the Supreme Court banned race-based affirmative action last year, many people in higher education worried that it would be only the first in a series of decisions that reduced diversity at selective schools. In particular, university administrators and professors thought the court might soon ban admissions policies that gave applicants credit for overcoming poverty. And the future of admissions at selective colleges and high schools has suddenly become clearer. The Texas modelThe situation has become clearer because the Supreme Court last week declined to hear a lawsuit against a public magnet school in Northern Virginia — Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, known as T.J.Until recently, T.J. admitted students based on a mix of grades, test scores, student essays and teacher recommendations. This process led to a student body that looked very different from the area it served.

Persons: Northern Virginia — Thomas Organizations: Northern Virginia — Thomas Jefferson High School for Science, Technology Locations: Texas, Northern Virginia

The U.S. Supreme Court building is seen prior to the start of the court's 2022-2023 term in Washington, U.S. September 30, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsAug 21 (Reuters) - A parents group backed by a conservative legal organization asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to consider whether an admissions policy aimed at diversifying an elite Virginia high school is racially discriminatory. But unlike the higher education cases, the admissions policy adopted in 2020 by Virginia's Fairfax County School Board for the state-chartered magnet high school was on its face race neutral. In February 2022, U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton sided with the parents' group lawyers at the libertarian Pacific Legal Foundation. Last year the Supreme Court declined an emergency request to block its policy, though three conservative justices dissented.

Persons: Kevin Lamarque, Thomas, Claude Hilton, Appeals, Nate Raymond, Clarence Fernandez Organizations: U.S, Supreme, REUTERS, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology, Fairfax, Fairfax County School Board, TJ, Coalition, District, Pacific Legal Foundation, Circuit, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, Virginia, Fairfax County, Alexandria, Constitution's, U.S, Richmond, Boston

In the latest challenge to the role race may play in school admissions, a legal activist group asked the Supreme Court on Monday to hear a case on how students are selected at one of the country’s top high schools, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled in May that Thomas Jefferson, a public school in Alexandria, Va., did not discriminate in its admissions. The Pacific Legal Foundation, a libertarian law group, wants the Supreme Court to overturn that decision, arguing that the school’s new admissions policies disadvantaged Asian American applicants. At issue is the use of what the school board said were race-neutral criteria to achieve a diverse student body. “This is the next frontier,” Joshua P. Thompson, a lawyer with the Pacific Legal Foundation, has said of the litigation.

Persons: Thomas, Thomas Jefferson, Joshua P, Thompson Organizations: Thomas Jefferson High School for Science, Technology, U.S ., Appeals, Fourth Circuit, Pacific Legal Foundation, Harvard, University of North Locations: Alexandria, Va, University of North Carolina

☆ After the Affirmative Action Ruling, Asian Americans Ask What Happens Next
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Anemona Hartocollis | More About Anemona Hartocollis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Even so, she said she believed the court’s ruling was wrong. “Why would you shut the entire thing down?” she asked. Students already feel pressure to write about hardship, said Rushil Umaretiya, who will go to the University of North Carolina in the fall. Even before the decision, he had seen anxious classmates at his selective high school, Thomas Jefferson High School, in Alexandria, Va., making up stories about facing racial injustice. “I think college admissions has really dipped into this fad of trauma dumping,” he said.

Persons: ”, “, John G, Roberts, Rushil Umaretiya, Roy Rogers, Thomas Organizations: ”, University of North, Thomas Jefferson High School Locations: University of North Carolina, Alexandria, Va

☆ A Shameful Vote in Virginia
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Virginia Democrats have hit a new low in their battle to keep Gov. Glenn Youngkin from making good on his promise to give parents more say over their children’s education. Mr. Youngkin’s nominee is Suparna Dutta , an India-born woman who co-founded the parents group at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. That group accused the high school of abandoning its merit-based admissions standards to reduce the number of Asian-Americans admitted. Democrats say she is unqualified to serve on the board because she has no background in education.

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