Supreme Court won't hear high school admissions case

rivergator · Feb 20, 2024

School changed admission policy to increase diversity. Obviously a hot-button issue these days.
Court wouldn't look it, despite its ruling on UNC and Harvard recently ...

The Supreme Court will not review a challenge to the admissions system for a prestigious Northern Virginia magnet school, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, which administrators said opened the program to a wider socioeconomic range of students but opponents claimed discriminated against Asian American applicants.

The high court’s decision Tuesday not to take the case drew a sharp dissent from two conservatives — Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas — and follows its ruling last term rejecting race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. That historic decision rolled back decades of precedent and has dramatically changed how the nation’s private and public universities select their students.

The legal battle in Virginia is between a group of parents, called the Coalition for TJ, and the Fairfax County School Board over an admissions policy designed to encourage diversity at the school without explicitly considering race. Thomas Jefferson, often ranked the best high school in the country, changed its admissions process in 2020 in part to boost racial diversity at the school, which had long enrolled single-digit percentages of Black and Hispanic students.

Earlier this month, the justices refused to immediately force the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to change its race-conscious admissions policies. Taken together, the two moves by the court suggest a majority of justices are not ready to quickly revisit these issues after the landmark decisions last term.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...irmative-action-thomas-jefferson-high-school/

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