Thomas Jefferson High School News Stories

Browse past news stories for Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria, VA.

• Harker School Senior Wins National AP Award - India West
  posted on February 22, 2013 at 06:28:13 pm
  Harker School Senior Wins National AP AwardIndia WestReddy plans to study mathematics, statistics and computer science in college and in his spare time ...
• Vermont Youth Named State Winner of Prudential Volunteer Award - India West
  posted on February 16, 2013 at 01:17:31 am
  Vermont Youth Named State Winner of Prudential Volunteer AwardIndia West... Sejal Vallabh, 17, Newton North H.S., Newton, Mass.; Anvi Bhakta, 17, Elko H.S., ...
• Piedmont RIA Makes Capital Investment in Hallway, Inc. - Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release)
  posted on November 20, 2012 at 06:25:27 pm
  Piedmont RIA Makes Capital Investment in Hallway, Inc.Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release)Created by 6 High School students from Thomas Jefferson High School in ...
• Thomas Jefferson High School For Science And Technology Hit With Civil Rights, Discrimination Suit
  posted on July 24, 2012 at 07:54:00 pm
  The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, a prestigious Alexandria, Va. high school, has been hit with a federal civil rights lawsuit. The Coalition of The Silence, a local minority advocacy group, and the NAACP filed a complaint to the U.S. Department of Education Monday alleging that black and Latino students, as well as ...
• Nation's top-rated high school celebrates 25 years
  posted on November 30, 2010 at 04:50:40 pm
  Suyeon Son, 18, paints a message on the large rock outside Thomas Jefferson High School ...
• Computer Science whiz heads to national finals
  posted on November 23, 2010 at 05:51:10 pm
  Caelan Garrett, 17, a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, will present his computer science research Dec. 3 through 6 during ...
• School notes
  posted on November 16, 2010 at 06:23:58 pm
  Caelan Garrett, a student at Thomas Jefferson High School, was named the regional winner of the Siemens ...
• Black, Hispanic students dwindle at elite Va. public school
  posted on October 30, 2010 at 10:49:00 pm
  When the Black Students Association at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology ...
• Barbara G. Benoski, Neill W. Dumont Jr., Elizabeth Swicord Flaa, James R. Joyce
  posted on September 10, 2010 at 04:00:00 am
  Barbara G. Benoski, 90, a high school business teacher at Thomas Jefferson High School in the Alexandria area from 1960 until she retired in ...

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