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Mon Apr 25, 2022, 06:39 PM Apr 2022

U.S. Supreme Court allows high school admissions policy in race dispute (liberals justices win)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to block an elite Virginia public high school's admissions policy - designed to increase its racial and socioeconomic diversity - that was challenged by a group that said the rules discriminated against Asian Americans who make up the majority of its student body.

The justices denied a request by the group, Coalition for TJ, to reinstate a federal judge's February ruling that stopped Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria from using the recently devised admissions policy.

Three conservative justices on the nine-member court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, said in the brief court order that they would have granted the request.

The case is the latest front in a legal battle in the United States over school admissions policies involving or affecting the racial composition of campuses.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u-s-supreme-court-allows-high-school-admissions-policy-in-race-dispute/ar-AAWAmeH

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