Attorney General Jason S. Miyares's investigation is expanding after two more Fairfax high schools apologized for not notifying students of national merit award commendations.
reporting that two high schools — Langley High School and Westfield High School — apologized over the weekend for failing to notify students that they had been commended by the National Merit Scholarship Corp.
Julie Moult, a spokeswoman for the Fairfax system, wrote in an email Monday that the school district is still figuring out how to respond because “we are just learning of this [expanded investigation] ourselves.” Fairfax officials have previously said that the withholding of notification from commended students was unintentional and a “one-time” error. School staffers have contacted the colleges to which commended students applied to inform them of the commendation.
Miyares’s investigation into Thomas Jefferson also encompasses its controversial admissions system, which officials reformed in 2020 to take into account factors such as socioeconomic status. The new process eliminated a difficult entrance test and a $100 application fee and has since boosted diversity at the school, increasing the population of Black and Hispanic students at an institution that has historically trended White and Asian.
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