some issues that i think have been overlooked.
1) TJ's enrollment with new criteria is more Asian, more Male
and less white and less female. the black, hispanic and poverty enrollment DID NOT Change.
2) remediation has not been defined. the only article that mentioned remediation was written by what might be a cranky old physics teacher that doesnt like change. ( read some of the comments written by TJ students on the articles and in face book) It may just mean that kids have not been required to already have both algebra one and geometry before high school as they used to. That would reflect the middle scholls feeding in, since not all of the feeder schools offer double advanced math. this meant previously none of their kids got in and now some of them do.
3) this has been a long contensious issue in NOVA. there are lots of articles to read over the controversy from the last 4-5 years of the recent retooling. and even further back to other changes.
4) the quota thing in the title is really deceptive. there are no quotas.
Ironically the people wanting quotas now are the rich white families that are increasingly shut out. the school is now 2/3 asian and 25% white.
5) Virgina completely shut down many of its public school systems in the late 50's for as long as 6 years to avoid integration. It was called massive resistence. there are still many wounds in VA because of it. it gives overtones to any discussion of education in VA.

6) there are no real labor unions for teachers in VA. they cannot set work rules or contracts or curriculum. look at TJs web site. they are advertising for teachers now. they get to pick who they want it seems. they just use Fairfax for the application process. tons of good and bad teachers have been laid of in VA due to state education budget cuts, even those with tenure. Sped teachers, social workers, school counselors reg ed teachers. yet the gifted school is hiring.

7) there are tons more applications and preapplications for TJ than there are spots. noone gets into TJ without being gifted. it is just the flavor of gifted that is altered. the concern is that they are now using criteria that can be gamed, much like new york gifted kindergartens. if there were enough spots for all the qualified kids, perhaps there wouldnt be a problem. the former white elite are being outcompeted by the tigermoms. and they dont like it. it is not a matter of less intelligent needing remediation.

Used to live in VA. familiar with controversy.