The Department of Education has opened an investigation into what it calls an attempt at “racial balancing” on the part of a school district in Virginia specifically aimed at rejecting Asian students.

The department has put an investigative team on the track of Fairfax County Public Schools in Fairfax County, Virginia. The county seat, the city of Fairfax, is less than 15 miles south and west of the White House. The Trump administration is already accusing the district leadership of developing an illegal race-based entry process for its Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

The Trump administration’s Title VI investigation follows initial work from Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares. He released a report on Wednesday that said the revised entrance requirements for the school were intended to prevent many Asian students from being accepted.

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