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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting. I mean, isn't the whole middle school placement model something that has already been found to be race neutral? In APS I thought this was the whole thrust of the failed challenge to HB Woodlawn. You can't argue middle school slots = racial preference. It's like precedent in the same federal court that the FCPS case is being brought.[/quote]

APS is a blind lottery based on number of seats allocated per middle school.
TJ is a Governor's School that "has been designed to assist divisions as they meet the needs of a small population of students whose learning levels are remarkably different from their age-level peers. The foundation of the Virginia Governor's School Program centers on best practices in the field of gifted education and the presentation of advanced content to able learners."
If you point is that a race blind lottery is legal, you are correct.  The problem FCPS had with the lottery aspect was that you would ultimately miss out on admitting the most able and gifted students who really belong there.  That's why they went with the new system: top 1.5% per middle school and then the rest going to the highest ranked applicants.  The fight is over what is used to determine the rankings and whether they are using race after abandoning a race blind test.  [/quote]

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