The lawsuit alleges that admission policy changes to Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia discriminated against the school's Asian-American applicants.
A federal judge in Virginia heard arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit alleging a 2020 change to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology admissions policies had an anti-Asian bias, which one school board member said they felt was true in text messages revealed in court Tuesday.
In October 2020, the school eliminated standardized testing score requirements and application fees, opting for a policy that guaranteed admission to the highest performing students at local middle schools and factoring in income levels in the student's home through access to programs like free or reduced-price school lunches, according to The Associated Press.
Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Erin Wilcox speaks at a news conference outside the federal courthouse, in Alexandria, Va. on March 10, 2021. The elite public high school in northern Virginia discriminated against Asian-American families when it overhauled its admissions policies amid a push to increase Black and Hispanic representation at the school, lawyers argued Tuesday.Admissions data for 2021 gave credibility to that criticism.
The school pushed back against a bill proposed last week that would reintroduce testing and grades as qualifications for enrollments while preventing schools from requesting racial or ethnic information on applications, according to WTOP News.
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