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NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson: The time to act is now on specialized high schools
I support the success of all communities, which is why I believe the single test admissions process used to gain admittance to our eight test-based specialized schools must be abolished. This is not a decision I make lightly, but I believe when tackling tough issues, we must make decisions based on fact, not on emotion…
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McAuliffe vs. NYC Pretrial Conference Transcript
March 7th, 2019 With all the discussion of “disparate impact” I don’t understand why Sandoval Decision doesn’t apply. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_v._Sandoval
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Stuyvesant Has 29 Black Students Out of 3,300. How Do They Feel?
The students — members of the school’s Black Students League and Aspira, the Hispanic student organization — recalled painful memories of having heard racist comments behind their backs at school. They reflected on their shared sense of alienation. They said they worried that adults would allow inequities in the system to persist.“It’s frustrating to see…
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New York City High Schools’ Endless Segregation Problem
The public schools in New York State are the most segregated in the country, according to a 2014 study from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA. That’s largely driven by New York City. The selective high schools are by no means the only places where inequality exists in the system, but they are the most visible, the…
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What NYC should do with the Specialized High School Admissions Test
Now, we’re turning to the experts. In this week’s “Ask the Experts” feature, we reached out to Syed Ali, a professor of sociology at Long Island University-Brooklyn; Zakiyah Ansari, the advocacy director for the Alliance for Quality Education; David Bloomfield, a professor of educational leadership, law and policy at Brooklyn College; and Soo Kim, president…
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Schools Chancellor Says SHSAT Results Show the Opportunity Gap Facing Black and Latino Students
Manhattan Councilwoman Margaret Chin called for reevaluating the admissions policy but said the city has an obligation to showcase other great high schools and improve lagging schools. “We have to make sure all our high schools also have specialized programs in there that attract students. They’ll stay in the neighborhood, don’t have to travel a…
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I’m an Asian American graduate of Brooklyn Tech. Please don’t use me as a wedge in your education lawsuit
The lawsuit, brought by the Pacific Legal Foundation ostensibly to contest alleged discrimination against Asian American students, targets changes to the city’s expanding Discovery Program. It allows students attending low-income middle schools to receive an offer to one of the city’s elite high schools if they score just below the admissions cut-off on the Specialized High School…
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Only 7 Black Students Got Into Stuyvesant, N.Y.’s Most Selective High School, Out of 895 Spots
Lawmakers considering Mr. de Blasio’s proposal have faced a backlash from the specialized schools’ alumni organizations and from Asian-American groups who believe discarding the test would water down the schools’ rigorous academics and discriminate against the mostly low-income Asian students who make up the majority of the schools’ student bodies. (At Stuyvesant, 74 percent of…