Parents Defending Education:

In 2020, the FCPS school board decimated the admissions requirements for the number one high school in America, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology (TJ). FCPS put equity at the heart of consideration, obliterating merit. In just three years, TJ went from the leading school in the country to number 14. The drop will continue now that the last class of merit-based admission students graduated in 2024. 

Recent national reporting has revealed that FCPS participated in the selling every aspect of TJ, America’s top STEM high school, to the Chinese Communist Party for $3.6 millionover a 7-year period. Intellectual property sold to China included curriculum, student research projects, floor plans and detailed photographs of laboratories – all intended to assist China in “cloning” TJ. China now has several Thomas Schools throughout their country, intended to compete with the American school.