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Fairfax County Trying To Water Down Gifted School To Fight Racism, Minority Parents Outraged

Ashe Schow
Fairfax County Trying To Water Down Gifted School To Fight Racism, Minority Parents Outraged
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Fairfax County schools continue to lead the nation in progressive policies. Now, in an effort to fight racism, the school district has agreed to end merit-based admissions to its most promising high school because such measures of academic achievement allegedly hurt black and Hispanic students.

Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, wrote about the new developments in Fairfax County for the Federalist, arguing that the new policies at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology are angering parents of minority students:

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