Tag: Fairfax
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When the Pursuit of “Equity” Cheats High Achievers
by Kerry Dougherty Imagine for a moment that you’re a top student in a highly competitive science and technology high school. In your junior year you take the PSATs and enter the prestigious National Merit Scholarship Program competing against the elite students in high schools from coast to coast. Imagine that in mid-October of your…
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Ed Department Office of Civil Rights Rules Against Fairfax County
by Asra Q. Nomani FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — Tears of joy came to the eyes of special education advocates Callie Oettinger and Debra Tisler as they read a much-anticipated decision by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. For years, they have been advocating — to deaf ears in Fairfax County Public Schools…