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Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images Activists in Loudoun County, Virginia’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) played a role in lowering the admissions standards for an elite magnet school, according to documents reviewed by the Daily Caller.
The NAACP Loudoun Branch obtained “stakeholder” status in “developing the process” Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) uses “to revise its admissions criteria and implement procedures,” according to a Terms of Conciliation agreement between the school district and the NAACP.
The NAACP sued LCPS in May 2019 alleging that the district had “discriminatory practices” in admissions to its magnet school Academies of Loudoun . Former Attorney General Mark Herring ruled that the school’s admissions standards resulted in “a discriminatory disparate impact on Black/African-American and Latinx/Hispanic students.”
The activist organization said in the Terms of Conciliation that its goal is to “promote the racial and ethnic diversity of admitted students, specifically black and brown students.”
Examples of admissions changes that the NAACP requested included developing an “equitable” admissions criteria based on “interest” in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) subjects. Activists also called for lowering the final acceptable grade in a class to a “C” and lowering the number of prerequisite courses and assessments.
“The criteria should also include strategies to increase identification and selection of historically underrepresented students, including Black/African-American students,” the Terms of Conciliation read.
Following legal challenges, the Academies of Loudoun acquiesced to many of the NAACP’s core demands. According to a PowerPoint of the school’s admissions changes, the school removed Geometry as a prerequisite for admissions and lowered the number of standardized tests from two to four.
Students must take a written assessment graded by an office that ensures there are “equitable results across students with diverse backgrounds.” (RELATED: Report: Virginia Grand Jury Investigating Loudoun Schools Over Allegedly Mishandling Sexual Assaults) Academies of Loudoun […]
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