The Department of Education is opening an investigation into Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) in Virginia over concerns that its admissions policy at a prestigious high school illegally discriminated against Asian American students.
The department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) said the probe was prompted in response to the Fairfax County School Board changing the admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ)—one of the nation’s top-ranked high schools—in 2020.
In a statement, Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the school “has long had a reputation for producing some of our nation’s brightest minds, due in no small part to its rigorous admissions process.”…