The Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in the Fairfax County School Board's appeal of a judge's ruling that Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology's admissions policy was discriminatory and violates the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law.
TJ is a magnet school located in Alexandria with a selective admissions policy that has had chronic underrepresentation of Black and Hispanic students. Aware of this, the board crafted a policy that eliminated a standardized test from TJ's admissions process, capped how many students could come from each of the district's middle schools and guaranteed seats for the top students from each of these schools.The case is another front in the U.S.
Judge Toby Heytens, an appointee of Democratic President Joe Biden, told Wilcox during Thursday's arguments that under that logic "any attempt to increase representation of one group, in your view, by necessity discriminates against another." "It makes no sense to conclude that promoting equal opportunities is a suspect purpose, because it would inappropriately freeze in place the status quo," said Sydney Foster, a U.S. Justice Department lawyer arguing for the Biden administration.
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That the applicants must be lily white?