Virginia’s attorney general is investigating whether three Fairfax County schools violated the state’s Human Rights Act by failing to notify students who received letters of commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation—an incident that could resonate with students and parents across the country.
Fairfax County Fairness?
Virginia’s attorney general says in a Dispatch interview he's investigating high schools that withheld National Merit award information from students.

A student sits in a math class at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The The Washington Post via Getty Images)
A student sits in a math class at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The The Washington Post via Getty Images)



