U.S. Supreme Court asked to hear high school admissions case concerning race
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on August 22, 2023
By Nate Raymond
(Reuters) - A parents group backed by a conservative legal organization asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to consider whether an admissions policy aimed at diversifying an elite Virginia high school is racially discriminatory.
The case over how students are selected to attend Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology came to the court two months after its conservative majority barred colleges and universities from considering race as a factor in admissions.
But unlike the higher education cases, the admissions policy adopted in 2020 by Virginia's Fairfax . . .
