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Top-Ranked High School Slapped With Civil Rights Complaint - High School Notes (usnews.com)

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Top-Ranked High School Slapped With Civil Rights Complaint

July 25, 2012 RSS Feed Print
Only 4 percent of the students enrolled at Thomas Jefferson during the 2009-2010 school year identified as black or Latino.
Only 4 percent of the students enrolled at Thomas Jefferson during the 2009-2010 school year identified as black or Latino.
Getting into Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technologyis like winning the lottery, Suzanne Rheault, CEO of the test-prep company Aristotle Circle, told U.S. News in April, calling the No. 2 ranked Best High School the "MIT of high schools."
But that lottery may discriminate against African-American and Latino students, as well as those with disabilities, according to a federal civil rights complaint filed with the Department o