Appeals court confirms Virginia high school's non-discriminatory admissions policy.

A federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of a new admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia, which critics say discriminates against highly qualified Asian Americans. The ruling overturns a decision from a federal judge who found that the Fairfax County School Board engaged in impermissible “racial balancing” when it overhauled the admissions policy at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. The school board had a legitimate interest in increasing diversity at the school, and twisting those efforts to call it discrimination against Asian Americans “simply runs counter to common sense,” the majority opinion said. The Pacific Legal Foundation, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of a group of current, former and prospective TJ parents, said it will seek to have the case heard by the Supreme Court.