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The Republican Standard
- February 20, 2024
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Northern Virginia High School’s Legal Case Won’t Be Heard At Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of the United States has declined to hear a challenge on contentious admission rules at a prestigious Northern Virginia high school looking to diversify its student body. The justices decided to punt on the case which could brush away the remnants of affirmative action in education. As Politico reports: The justices who […]

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The Republican Standard
- July 1, 2022
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Youngkin Gets Majority on Board of Education, Appoints Coalition for TJ Co-Founder

Governor Glenn Youngkin filled five vacancies on the Board of Education, according to a Thursday afternoon announcement. Youngkin’s appointees include Suparna Dutta, co-founder of the Coalition for TJ, which has been working to protest and block Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology’s controversial new admissions policy. The appointments give him a majority on […]

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The Republican Standard
- April 27, 2022
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Supreme Court Sides with Elite School’s “Selective Admissions” Policy

Following several lawsuits, including one joined by Virginia Attorney General Miyares and 15 other states in opposition to Thomas Jefferson High’s race-based high school admissions policies, the U.S. Supreme court has declined to block the school’s use of the policy. Miyares and the coalition’s issue with the policy were it disproportionally affected Asian-American students. According […]

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The Republican Standard
- April 14, 2022
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Miyares Leads 15 Other States in Fighting Against Thomas Jefferson High’s Admissions Policy

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares is heading the charge to the Supreme Court to fight against race based high school admissions policies, similar to the one found at Thomas Jefferson High School. The emergency application asking the U.S. Supreme Court to halt what he describes as a “discriminatory” and “illegal” admissions process designed to dramatically […]

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The Republican Standard
- April 6, 2022
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Dad Facing Charges After Raising Concerns About Possible Predatory Behavior at Elite Virginia School

A concerned father faces four misdemeanor charges thanks to an obscure law and a commonwealth’s attorney’s apparent decision to look the other way even though the defendant is a black man facing particularly dubious charges. Harry Jackson’s alleged crime? Tweeting that Jorge Torrico, a liberal activist, exhibited grooming behavior while interacting with Thomas Jefferson High […]

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Patrick Houck is an avid political aficionado based out of the Washington, D.C. metro area. When not analyzing the latest news, yo ...
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The Republican Standard
- March 11, 2022
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Asian Moms Force Fairfax School Board to Retreat Like 1940 France

Okay, in fairness, this isn’t a wholly accurate description of what happened in Northern France in May-June 1940. France surrendered, but after losing 92,000 soldiers killed in six weeks. But, for all intents and purposes, both the French and British were defeated by Nazi Germany in the first five days of Hitler’s invasion. Even before […]

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Patrick Houck is an avid political aficionado based out of the Washington, D.C. metro area. When not analyzing the latest news, yo ...
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The Republican Standard
- February 25, 2022
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Admissions Policy at Nation’s Most Elite School Ruled Discriminatory

A federal judge ruled today that Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology’s admissions policy illegally discriminates against Asian Americans. U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton declared that the Fairfax County School Board resorted to impermissible “racial balancing” when they decided to scrap a traditional standardize test students worked so hard to ace. In its […]

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Patrick Houck is an avid political aficionado based out of the Washington, D.C. metro area. When not analyzing the latest news, yo ...
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The Republican Standard
- January 11, 2022
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Texts Reveal How Fairfax County Public Schools Rationalized Discrimination

A new report today courtesy of Bacon’s Rebellion explains how officials at Virginia’s largest school system felt about imposing race-based admissions at the nation’s best high school. Disclosed text messages between Fairfax school board members Abrar Omeish and Stella Pekarsky show the pair admitting that the controversial admission changes to make Thomas Jefferson High School […]

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