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My mistake.  It was a "complaint" filed with the DOE not a lawsuit.  But hardly a mere "submission" the DOE is found there were grounds to launch an investigation, which is still continuing, btw.

An while the law cannot guarantee equal outcomes,  it does provide for equity and fairness in publicly-funded programs, and if a program is set up to capture and reward kids whose families have the means to game it to the detriment of equally or more qualified actual "gifted" kids, that is actionable.  [/quote]

I'm sorry, but the logic here is flimsy.  In the Obama Administration, getting a federal agency to open an investigation ("launch" exaggerates the significance) into potential discrimination takes very little effort.  The real issue is whether the investigation results in enough evidence to justify the filing of a complaint by the federal government.  That wouldn't mean that the feds could ultimately prove their case, but it would suggest that they felt there was a sufficient basis to file a lawsuit.  It's been four years since some groups urged the DOE to challenge AAP admissions within FCPS, and nothing significant has occurred besides DOE agreeing to look into it.  Big deal.

The problem, of course, is the difficult of showing that the program was structured,  as you assert, for the purpose of segregating children who come from families of means (mostly white and Asian) from children who come from lower-income families (mostly Hispanic and black).  It is easy to claim that was the goal, and next to impossible to prove.

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