Complaint says minorities are being excluded from specialized school in Fairfax County (Va.) district

July 24, 2012
Group challenges how district decides who is admitted to Thomas Jefferson High School

From The Washington Post: The disproportionately low number of black and Latino students admitted to the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Va., has triggered a federal civil rights complaint. The Coalition of The Silence, an advocacy group led by former school board member Tina Hone, and the Fairfax chapter of the NAACP, has filed a 17-page complaint with the U.S. Department of Education. It alleges that black and Latino students, as well as students with disabilities, are being shut out of Thomas Jefferson long before they apply in eighth grade because of Fairfax County district's systematic failure to identify them for gifted education programs that begin in elementary school.

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