Elite public schools in Virginia, elsewhere seek diversity
Virginia's Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology regularly finds itself at the very top of national rankings, an elite public school in the suburbs of the nation's capital for which families start preparing their children as early as kindergarten.For decades, though, Black and Hispanic students have made up just a tiny fraction of the school’s student body.The lack of diversity in gifted education is a nationwide problem, one that officials in many states are now seeking
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