The Supreme Courtroom dominated the Thomas Jefferson Excessive College for Science & Expertise can proceed utilizing its admissions coverage
The Supreme Courtroom has turned away a plea from mother and father to dam a brand new admissions coverage at a prestigious highschool in northern Virginia {that a} decrease court docket has discovered discriminates towards Asian American college students.
The excessive court docket didn’t clarify its order Monday permitting the Thomas Jefferson Excessive College for Science & Expertise to proceed utilizing its admissions coverage whereas the Fairfax County College Board appeals the decrease court docket ruling.
Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas stated they’d have granted the request from the mother and father’ group, Coalition for TJ, to droop the admissions coverage.
In February, the group persuaded U.S. District Choose Claude Hilton {that a} new coverage that has boosted Black and Hispanic illustration amounted to impermissible “racial balancing” on the selective college close to the nation’s capital. It’s usually ranked as among the finest public excessive colleges within the nation.
Asian American college students constituted greater than 70% of the coed physique. Beneath the brand new coverage, used to confess the college’s present freshman class, Asian American illustration decreased to 54%. Black college students elevated from 1% to 7% and Hispanic illustration elevated from 3% to 11%.
Hilton had ordered the brand new coverage suspended, however the federal appeals court docket in Richmond, Virginia, stated it could possibly be used whereas the case continues to play out within the courts.
In an announcement Monday night, Coalition for TJ stated: “We have been hopeful that we might win this battle to vacate the keep within the highest court docket of the land, however our battle for justice isn’t over. We’re not in any respect dissuaded.”
