The Coalition for TJ petitioned the Supreme Court to review a case challenging the admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
University and the University of North Carolinaviolated the constitution, rolling back years of admissions precedent. Some experts said they anticipate seeing more race-neutral policies like those at TJ — which considers factors other than race, like neighborhood or socioeconomic status — as a way to admit diverse classes under the new restrictions. They also expect to see more legal challenges of race-neutral policies.
On Tuesday, a group of organizations around Virginia denounced the petition, saying in a news release that the admissions changes were an important step that “expanded access to the specialized, publicly-funded high school for students from a wider range of economic, racial, and geographic backgrounds in the district.”
of at least 3.5 while taking higher-level courses, as well as complete a problem-solving essay and a “Student Portrait Sheet.”February 2022, U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton ruled that “the purpose of the Board’s admissions overhaul was to change the racial makeup to TJ to the detriment of Asian Americans” and issued an order forbidding Fairfax from using its revised admissions system. Hilton called the policy “patently unconstitutional” and said the decision to implement it was rushed.
took up the case, and ruled in favor of the Coalition for TJ, it would limit the consideration of “race-neutral” factors, making admissions even more colorblind and vastly affect how schools admit diverse classes. Even if the court does not take up the TJ case, she said there would be similar battles to consider in the future.“The big question is: How far do they want to go, and how quickly do they want to get there?” Starr said.
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