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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought quotas were unconstitutional?[/quote]

It’s complicated.

With the caveat that I have not seen the FCPS exact phrasing— quotas are generally unconstitutional.  But, in holistic admissions, like AAP, URM status as a “plus factor”— one consideration out of several— is okay.   And targets or goals that might or might not be reached are fine.  So, if FCPS is trying to put systems in place to help reach enrollment goals for URMs, it could be fine.  Especially if the goals are aspirational, rather than actual quotas.  “We hope that there will be enough qualified URMs” is different than “we will take unqualified URMs is we must to hit a certain number.  It’s like Harvard aggressively recruiting URMs and giving URM status special weight. Fine, as long as being a URM is not the deciding factor.

But— a lot of this law is in the context of college admissions, where there a set number of seats.  AAP is different, because every qualified kid is supposed to be admitted.  Unlike Harvard, a URM getting admission does not take a seat from some other, possibly more qualified kid. Your UMC white kid will still be admitted, whether or not the YS model is used to identify additional URM kids. So, I would think FCPS would get additional flexibility. [/quote]

No idea if what you say is accurate or not, but there’s no reason this couldn’t be applied to TJ admissions too.  It’s time.[/quote]

TJ has a limited number of seats.[/quote]

They tried it before at TJ with disastrous results.  Too many kids had to take remedial classes.  The point of TJ is for the best to be surrounded by the best.  If you don't agree with that attack TJ as a whole.  Honestly most of the TJ kids would be just as successful at their base schools so it's an argument I can at least follow[/quote]

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