Supreme Court Rebuffs Challenge to Top High School Diversity (2)

A divided US Supreme Court reinforced school efforts to use their admissions policies to foster socio-economic diversity, turning away an appeal that said a competitive Virginia public high school revised its criteria to change its racial composition.

The policy in question at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology was designed to achieve more geographic and economic diversity in the student body. The challengers, made up of some of the school’s students and parents, argued that the real goal was to reduce the percentage of Asian-American students.

The rebuff is a setback to racial-preference opponents who had sought to ...