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Supreme Court Could Consider Virginia High School’s Admissions

By: Adam Liptak
The justices will soon rule on race-conscious admissions plans at Harvard and U.N.C. A new appeals court case asks whether schools can use race-neutral tools to achieve racial diversity.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., instituted an admissions process that reserved spots for the top students at every public middle school in the area.

The Income Gap Is Becoming a Physical-Activity Divide

By: Matt Richtel
Nationwide, poor children and adolescents are participating far less in sports and fitness activities than their more affluent peers.

Naomi Peralta, at left, prepares for a practice run at Highland High School in Albuquerque, N.M., in February.

The College Board’s Rocky Path, Through Florida, to the A.P. Black Studies Course

By: Anemona Hartocollis · Dana Goldstein and Stephanie Saul
The nonprofit met with Governor DeSantis’s state officials, who asked whether the course was “trying to advance Black Panther thinking.”

There had long been talk about the need for an Advanced Placement course focused on the Black experience. Now in a pilot program for African American studies, Rachel Williams-Giordano instructed the students Agustina Leon Perdomo, 16, center, and Riley Ferrell, 16, at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in Cambridge, Mass.

Student Fatally Stabs Another at Minnesota High School, Police Say

By: Christopher Mele
The stabbing, which happened at Harding High School in St. Paul on Friday, was the first homicide in the city this year, the police said.

Coach Who Posed as a High School Player in Virginia Causes Season’s Forfeit

By: Eduardo Medina
The Portsmouth Public Schools received a report last week that an assistant coach had played in a girls’ junior varsity basketball game on Jan. 21. The team decided not to go forward with the season.

Florida Rejects AP African American Studies Class

By: Patricia Mazzei and Anemona Hartocollis
The state’s Department of Education said in a letter that the course content was “inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida signed legislation last year that restricted how racism and other aspects of history can be taught in schools and workplaces. A federal judge blocked part of the law, but it still applies to public schools.
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