But he didn’t argue that the system was biased against black and Latino students, as the Fairfax chapter of the NAACP and a local advocacy group alleged in a similar complaint filed Monday with the Department of Education. African American and Latino students are 4 percent of the rising freshmen at Thomas Jefferson, or TJ, but make up 32 percent of the county’s entire student body.
Instead, Cohen contended that it was white students who were losing out, the deck stacked against them as the school system sought to boost black enrollment at the high-flying school.
