Supremes nix school suit

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to block an elite Virginia public high school’s admissions policy — designed to increase its racial and socioeconomic diversity — that was challenged by a group that said the rules discriminated against Asian Americans, who make up the majority of its student body.

The justices denied a request by the group, Coalition for TJ, to reinstate a federal judge’s February ruling that stopped Thomas Jefferson HS for Science and Technology in Alexandria from using the recently devised admissions policy.