The Fairfax County School Board has filed an appeal challenging a recent court ruling against controversial new admissions procedures at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ), a prestigious magnet school in Alexandria, Virginia.
The new admissions policy was intended to increase the proportion of black and Hispanic students at the school. It was struck down in late February by Judge Claude M. Hilton of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, who ruled that the new policy "has had, and will have, a substantial disparate impact on Asian American applicants to TJ."
