Asra Nomani: Woke Leftists “Targeting Asian Kids”
Asra Nomani was on WMAL’s Mornings on the Mall radio program today, discussing last night’s meeting of the Fairfax County School Board, where Superintendent Scott Brabrand unveiled his scheme to abolish merit-based, race-blind admissions standards at Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology (“TJ”).
If enacted last year, Brabrand’s scheme would have cut TJ’s Asian student body from 70 percent to 52 percent.
Want to Solve TJ’s Diversity Problem? Reject a False Binary
Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology (TJ), ranked as the nation’s #1 high school by U.S. News and World Report, is in the crosshairs of the Virginia Secretary of Education, Atif Qarni, and Fairfax County Public School Superintendent, Scott Brabrand. Lamentably, yet again, a miniscule number of Black and Hispanic students were admitted to TJ’s freshman class.
Over the summer, Secretary Qarni convened a secretive “task force” to sketch out their preferred solutions.
FCPS Betrays the Community Again
Superintendent Scott Brabrand served on a statewide taskforce that waived school district accreditation for the 2021-2022 school year! Let that sink in. As the largest school district in the Commonwealth of Virginia, I can only imagine the outside influence FCPS brought to bear on this decision.
Why is this significant? As the Virginia Department of Education’s (DOE) website describes, the Standards of Accreditation regulations “establish the state accountability system for the Commonwealth’s public schools and set the requirements students must meet to earn a high school diploma.”
FCPS Superintendent Uses Taxpayer Resources to Misinform Public on School Boundary Changes
The Fairfax County Republican Committee (FCRC) calls for Scott Brabrand, the Superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), to retract his recent video and message issued at taxpayer expense, in which he purportedly seeks “to clarify some misinformation that is unfortunately circulating in our community about school boundaries”
School Boundaries: Setting the Record Straight
“Superintendent Brabrand sent out a county-wide video to every parent in #FCPS that is at best misleading, and at worst corrupt,” at-large school board candidate Priscilla DeStefano tweeted earlier today.
Here’s a new video from Voices of Fairfax that sets the record straight