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NYC Bar: Eliminate Competitive Admissions to NYC Public Elementary & Middle Schools

May 2, 2019

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Equal access to educational opportunity and racially and economically integrated public schools are central goals of the SDAG and the larger civil-rights community. These goals cannot be achieved unless the New York City Department of Education eliminates competitive admissions to its elementary- and middle-school programs and schools. In the elementary-school context, New York City provides…

Testimony regarding segregation in New York City public schools

May 2, 2019

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in opinion

UFT opposes single measure admissionsThe union is on record criticizing and challenging the validity of a single test as the sole criteria for high stakes decisions – such as entrance to early elementary gifted and talented programs or specialized high schools. The proponents of these standardized tests for entrance to competitive screened schools allege the…

Entrenched positions and pleas for change: NYC council debates school integration

May 2, 2019

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in news

City council members on Wednesday grilled education department officials on school segregation at a joint hearing of the Education Committee and Civil and Human Rights Committee. The sharp questions and answer session took place just weeks before the 65th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. The atmosphere was a stark departure from…

Big Money Enters Debate Over Race and Admissions at Stuyvesant

Apr 27, 2019

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in lobbying

Follow the money they typically say. Ronald S. Lauder, the billionaire cosmetics heir, and Richard D. Parsons, the former chairman of Citigroup, have for decades had their hands in New York City affairs. Mr. Lauder ran a failed bid for mayor and successfully led a campaign for term limits for local elected officials. Mr. Parsons…

Billionaire joins push to stop de Blasio’s high school admissions test plan

Apr 26, 2019

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in lobbying

Powerful specialized high school alumni have now promised to put MILLIONS into lobbying against replacing the embattled 114 multiple-choice exam as the sole admissions criteria for these schools. Cosmetics tycoon Ron Lauder is bankrolling a multimillion-dollar effort to stop Mayor Bill de Blasio from eliminating the admissions test to the city’s top high schools, sources told…

High-Stakes Standardized Testing Supporter: Eric Adams

Apr 26, 2019

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Name: Eric AdamsBallotpedia: https://ballotpedia.org/Eric_Adams_(New_York) Phone: 718-802-3700 Brooklyn President Eric Adams now advocates for keeping the SHSAT exam as the sole admission’s criteria in New York City specialized high schools. Mr. Eric Adams is running for mayor in 2021 and is currently funding raising for this purpose. At first, Mr. Adams was AGAINST the SHSAT high-stakes…

Seven NYC Students Didn’t Get Seats in Elite Schools, So They Asked State for Help

Apr 21, 2019

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in law

Another attack on NYC’s specialized high school diversity efforts. This is representing attorney Claude M. Millman’s ( Bronx Science ’81 Alumni ) second legal action against the SHSAT reform that I know of. Previously he represented a coalition of anti-reform protesters in another SHSAT related matter in 2014. I believe but haven’t confirmed that this…

Toward a Black education agenda

Apr 19, 2019

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“We have 5,000 applicants every year for these schools and NYC is the only school system that uses a single test as the only criteria for admission. All other schools in the nation have multiple measures for admission into specialized schools. They look at what the student has done all year, their GPA, their development.…

Segregation Has Been the Story of New York City’s Schools for 50 Years

Apr 15, 2019

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in history

It’s important to understand the political climate before the NY State legislature decided to pass Hecht-Calandra in 1971. The New York Times does a great job filing in that context. In 2016, a proposal to send some Upper West Side children — who were zoned for a high-performing, mostly white, wealthy elementary school near their…

Important Technical Features of the SHSAT Exam

Apr 14, 2019

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in analysis

Recently @akilbello went over some very important open questions regarding the SHSAT. These remind us of how important it is for the NYC Department of Education to immediately release the SHSAT manual. Read the lengthy twitter thread here.

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