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Below is my column in the Hill on the litigation over the new admissions policy at the elite Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax, Virginia. Here is the column: A small, exclusive public high school in Northern Virginia is emerging this month as a major battleground over free speech and academic integrity.
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