Fairfax County School Officials Broke Law Reducing Asian American Enrollment, Judge Rules

A federal judge ruled Friday that school officials in Fairfax County, Virginia, violated the law by altering admissions requirements at the nation’s top-ranked high school, since the changes discriminated against Asian Americans.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) system, which is ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the best school nationwide, came under fire last year for abolishing an entrance exam at which Asian students excelled, The Daily Wire reported. Community members, represented by Pacific Legal Foundation, filed a lawsuit against the school board last March.

U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton for Virginia’s Eastern District ruled that the admissions process change was discriminatory toward Asian American students. The school board had adopted an equity policy to balance racial groups, thereby gutting an exam on which Asians performed well, and accepting other minorities who did not do well largely on the test…(Excerpt from Daily Wire)