Supreme Court turned away a racial preferences fight in Virginia NBC New York [Video]

The Supreme Court on Tuesday avoided another contentious debate over race and education by turning away a challenge to an admissions policy aimed at encouraging diversity at a Virginia high school.

The high court’s decision not to intervene in the case comes just months after the conservative court ended the consideration of race in college admissions, NBC News reported.

Two conservative justices, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, dissented, saying the court should have struck down the policy.

“We should wipe the decision off the books,” Alito wrote of the lower court decision that allowed the admissions process to remain in place.

The latest case involved Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a highly selective public high school in Fairfax County, Virginia, that introduced a new admissions policy in 2022.

The school maintains that the policy, which does not consider standardized test scores and guarantees places for top students in various middle schools in the county, is race …