‘Strict scrutiny’ will determine Harvard’s anti-Asian discrimination case. What is it?
The students suing Harvard over its race-conscious admissions process are asking a simple question: What is Harvard's compelling interest in discriminating against Asian Americans? Harvard's attorneys will soon be trying to answer that question in front of the Supreme Court: The Court just granted cert in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvar ...
The Center Square : Chicago renews controversial racial preferences in city contracting. That’s bad news for equal rights
Proponents of racial preferences typically pitch them as temporary measures – in place only as long as needed to remedy past discrimination. Yet in practice, such preferences are anything but temporary. Since the 1980s, for instance, the city of Chicago has had some form of racial preference in its city contracting program. Far from ending the pr ...
You think higher ed’s discriminatory admissions policies are bad? Just wait until you hear about K-12
Today, the Supreme Court announced that it will hear the case, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina. The crux of the case rests in the question: Should racial preferences in university admissions be legal? Harvard officials think so, as is evidenced by its own admissions proc ...
Thomas Jefferson High School becomes an arena for the battle between parents and policy
**This article appeared in the Winter 2021 issue of Pacific Legal Foundation's quarterly magazine, Sword&Scales** The large auditorium was mostly empty when the Fairfax County School Board held its public hearing in May. Schools had been closed for much of the school year and Fairfax's indoor mask mandate was still in effect. Seven b ...
The Hill : The parents were right
Coauthored by Asra Q. Nomani, vice president of the grassroots organization Parents Defending Education and cofounder of Coalition for TJ, which advocates for diversity and excellence at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Va. The parents were right all along, and now they have the proof. In the fall of ...
New documents covered in The Wall Street Journal show the ugliness of racial preferences in school admissions
In his piece "An Ugly Game of Race Preferences," Wall Street Journal columnist William McGurn describes the thrust of federal lawsuits challenging the admissions policies at Harvard University and at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia: "The allegation in both cases is the same: The schools want ...
The Inconvenient Minority
***Editor's note: On January 7, 2022 the Supreme Court will decide whether or not they hear the case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which deals with Harvard discriminating against Asian applicants during the admissions process. This article is featured in the winter edition of our quarterly magazine Sword&Scales. ~~~ Histor ...
The Daily Reflector : Fighting back against Farmville right thing to do
By Mark Shirley The restaurant business is hard work. Long hours, narrow profit margins, fierce competition — given the challenges, it's not surprising that 60 percent of new restaurants fail in their first year. I was prepared for all those challenges and more when I launched my barbeque business, Ole Time Smokehouse, in a food truck in Fa ...
Daily Journal : Harvard admissions case gives high court chance to revitalize equal treatment
Should racial preferences in university admissions be legal? The U.S. Supreme Court has an opportunity to revisit that hotly debated question if it decides to take up Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (about racial preferences at a private college) and/or Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina (preferences at a public un ...