Coalition for TJ

05/27/2023

We had to lose to win — in the Supreme Court of the United States. In one year’s time our brave parents — most of them immigrants — and their beautiful children will have protected equality for all in the United States of America!

Pacific Legal Foundation, which represents Asian American families in the Coalition for TJ, said their attorneys will head to the U.S. Supreme Court to appeal a decision this week in

04/12/2022

JOIN US! If you can make it as we ask the Supreme Court to in Public Schools.

MEDIA ADVISORY
Major announcement TUES, 4/12, 4 PM, in Coalition for TJ v. FCSB at SCOTUS

What: Major announcement in Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board

When: Tuesday, April 12, 2022, 4 PM-4:30 PM

Where: On the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20543

Who: Coalition for TJ families and supporters

Why: To announce breaking news in the lawsuit challenging the race-based admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology as anti-Asian and unconstitutional.

Will LiveStream on Twitter from

Contact: [email protected]

For current information and court filings: Please visit PacificLegal.org and http://coalitionforTJ.net

03/10/2022

Join us Thursday, March 10, to in , Virginia. Stand with parents for kids!

Send a clear message to Fairfax County Public Schools Stella Pekarsky Stella Pekarsky, Fairfax County School Board Member, Sully District Rachna Sizemore Heizer, Fairfax County School Board Member at Large Elaine Tholen for Fairfax County School Board, Dranesville Elaine Tholen School Board Member Fairfax Co Public Schools Dranesville Abrar Omeish

02/26/2022

WE WON! Coalition for TJ is thrilled that Judge Claude Hilton has ruled in the favor of our parents, students, families and communities! In a scathing decision, Judge Hilton ruled that Fairfax County Public Schools discriminated against Asian-American students in its new admission process to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. In his ruling, Judge Hilton stated, "The Board's main problem is its focus on the goal to have TJ reflect the demographics of the surrounding area, described primarily in racial terms. Far from a compelling interest, racial balancing for its own sake is 'patently unconstitutional'...The Board cannot transform racial balancing into a compelling interest 'simply by relabeling it racial diversity.'"

This ruling is a victory for Coalition for TJ and for parents everywhere who are questioning the unlawful acts of runaway school boards. Fairfax County Public School officials colluded to discriminate against students. Judge Hilton has ruled this discrimination is unconstitutional. Coalition for TJ looks forward to a return to merit-based admission at America's #1 high school, a Governor's School.

Read the historic ruling here!

Alexandria, Virginia; February 25, 2022: Today, a federal judge ruled that Fairfax County school officials violated the law by changing admissions requirements at the nation's top public school to deliberately reduce the number of Asian-American students enrolled. Last March, a coalition of parents,...

01/19/2022

We knew. They knew. All 12 members of the Fairfax County Public Schools board and Supt. Scott Brabrand are complicit in racism.

They are: ✔️Abrar Omeish ✔️ Stella Pekarsky ✔️ Karl Frisch ✔️ Karen Keys-Gamarra ✔️ Karen Corbett Sanders ✔️ Melanie Meren, Fairfax County School Board, Hunter Mill ✔️ Rachna Sizemore Heizer, Fairfax County School Board Member at Large ✔️ Laura Jane Cohen ✔️ Elaine Tholen School Board Member Fairfax Co Public Schools Dranesville ✔️ Fairfax County School Board Member Megan McLaughlin ✔️ Ricardy Anderson

Fairfax County, Va., school board members changed the admissions process to "whiten" Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

01/15/2022

In 1992, Fairfax County, VA, mother Suparna Dutta arrived in the US from India. Today, she is an American hero.

This is how it happened. In June 2020, she spoke to the Fairfax County Public Schools board for the first time ever to advocate for honoring merit in education at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. The school board’s 12 members ignored her. The school principal ignored her. In August 2020, she cofounded Coalition for TJ to advocate for the American Dream.

In 2021, Suparna led the Educators for Youngkin Coalition, mobilizing parents for Glenn Youngkin for governor of Virginia. Today, Jan. 15, 2022, Gov. Youngkin picked Suparna to deliver the one reading at his inaugural address. The honor was well-deserved for our courageous mother.

Wearing an elegant sari at the inauguration, she said, “Too often, we feel: I can’t. Or: others will. For so many, engaging in our democracy feels like the road not taken. Have courage and faith to get involved, to be engaged in OUR Virginia. We will all be better for it.”

She then beautifully delivered a Robert Frost poem, “The road not taken.”

She ended: “God bless the United States of America!”

Wait for her air fist pumps! 👏🏽

12/21/2021

We are so grateful to our friends at Pacific Legal Foundation. In the fall of 2020, long before many spoke the words “critical race theory,” our friends at Pacific Legal Foundation understood that ideologues and activists had their eyes set on America’s No. 1 high school in their racist war on merit. Our Asian, immigrant families were smeared as “white adjacent” and “resource hoarders” but we knew one thing: we unapologetically believe in the American Dream. And this nation is so fortunate that Pacific Legal Foundation exists — as protectors of the American Dream. Here is to victory in the courts in January 2022!

Parents Defending Education Wenyuan Wu Chinese American Parent Association of Northern Virginia Glenn Youngkin Friends of Lowell Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, or TJ, is the nation's top-ranked public high school. Fairfax County Public Schools' (FCPS) recent changes to TJ's admissions process specifically aim to reduce the number of Asian-American children—and only Asian-American children—who can...

09/29/2021

We must fight unapologetically against racism and for equal protection under the law.

City Talk

07/19/2021

"Let them die!" said Fairfax County NAACP 1st Vice President Michelle Leete at a July 15, 2021, protest, about not only parents opposed to critical race theory but also "anti-admissions policy changes." Fairfax County Democratic Committee Chair Bryan Graham applauded as did other leaders, inlcuding teachers' union officials, members of TJAAG and a former TJ PTSA president. We reject all violence and call for all leaders to condemn this dehumanization of others and call to violence. Watch the entire event here.

On July 15, 2021, parents held a protest against critical race theory in Fairfax County Public Schools at Luther Jackson Middle School in Falls Church, Va., ...

07/13/2021

Must read.

America’s top public high school shows us what discrimination looks like today.

07/06/2021

MUST READ by Coalition for TJ cofounder Asra Q. Nomani and Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Erin Wilcox. The purge of TJ has begun. It's just as we predicted. And we will keep fighting until we realize justice. Please read and share!

Under the cover of fighting against discrimination and injustice, a new era of discrimination and injustice has begun. It’s up to parents to draw the line against this abuse of power.

04/09/2021

Here's a message from Glenn Youngkin especially for Coalition for TJ. UPDATE: Governor-Elect Youngkin!