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High-Stakes Standardized Testing Supporter: Yuh-Line Niou
Name: Yuh-Line NiouAssembly Link: https://nyassembly.gov/mem/Yuh-Line-NiouBallotpedia: https://ballotpedia.org/Yuh-Line_NiouPhone: 212-312-1420 Assembly-member Yuh-Line Niou is a proponent of keeping the SHSAT exam as the SOLE measure of merit for access to Specialized High Schools. Although her website claims to be against standardized testing, this is false. Speaker Heastie reported that assembly-member Niou was one of the key assembly-members to lobby against allowing…
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Stuyvesant Alumni President: Calling NYC Schools ‘Segregated’ Makes Me ‘Feel Like I’m a Bad Person’
“How is this possible, that people are saying we’re segregated, we’re Jim Crow,” Kim told the Times. “These words are too harsh. It makes me feel like I’m a bad person.” This is a striking and revelatory assessment of what’s happening. New York City officials admitted long ago to having a segregated public school system, and…
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Racist? Fair? Biased? Asian-American Alumni Debate Elite High School Admissions
“We used to joke that whoever had the most money to spend on test prep would probably go to Stuyvesant.” That was how Ms. Rahman was introduced to the specialized school debate as a young Bangladeshi immigrant living in Brooklyn. In high school, she came to believe that the admissions process was about money, not…
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Admissions Overhaul: Simulating the Outcome Under the Mayor’s Plan For Admissions to the City’s Specialized High Schools
Demographic Changes. IBO compared the demographic composition of the specialized high schools under each of the three scenarios with the actual demographic composition of the ninth grade class in specialized high schools in 2017-2018.14 We found that:More black and Hispanic students would get offers. Under the top 7 percent scenario, the share of black students receiving offers…
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How a Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Smashed the Gender Divide in American High Schools
The anniversary of de Rivera’s battle comes amid another controversy about diversity at Stuyvesant. The school accepts students based entirely on an entrance exam, and the result is that few black and Latino students are admitted. (Only ten black students were admitted to Stuyvesant’s incoming class last year.) Last year, Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed…
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High-Stakes Standardized Testing Supporter: Jumaane D. Williams
Name: Jumaane D. WilliamsPublic Advocate Link: https://advocate.nyc.gov/Ballotpedia: https://ballotpedia.org/Jumaane_WilliamsPhone Hotline: (212) 669-7250 Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams strongly supports the SHSAT as the sole measure of academic merit. He argues that the only reason he got into a specialized high school was that he was good at taking tests, and not particularly good in class. Jumaane Williams…
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High-Stakes Standardized Testing Supporter: Andrew Gounardes
Name: Andrew GounardesSenate Link: https://www.nysenate.gov/senators/andrew-gounardesBallotpedia: https://ballotpedia.org/Andrew_S._GounardesPhone: (718) 238-6044 Senator Andrew Gounardes defends the use of the single SHSAT multiple-choice test as the SOLE measure of a student’s ability without any reservation. Senator Gounardes has a classic “Resource Hoarding” position. His constituents are over-represented by the exam, hence he defends it. Senator Gounardes also claims the typical “the…
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CityViews: Equitable Admission to High Schools Must Start with Middle School
recent actions by the Trump administration strongly suggest that attempts to increase representation of African American and Latinx students at schools with competitive admissions processes could invite investigation from the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice. It is safer just to eliminate competitive processes wherever possible. https://citylimits.org/2019/01/21/cityviews-equitable-admission-to-high-schools-must-start-with-middle-school/
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Asian Test-Prep Centers Offer Parents Exactly What They Want: ‘Results’
At GPS, as with its competitors, one of the most popular courses focuses on New York City’s Specialized High School Admissions Test, an entrance requirement for eight of the city’s nine specialized high schools. (LaGuardia High, a performing-arts school, has an audition system.) Less than 20 percent of eighth graders who take the exam clear…
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Wallack Declaration – Christa McAuliffe I.S 187 vs NYC
Case 1:18-cv-11657-ER Document 50 Filed 01/17/19 Some interesting sections from the full declaration. Notes… Deputy Chancellor for Early Childhood Education and Student Enrollment in the New York City Department of Education (“DOE”). As such, the DOE Office of Student Enrollment, which among other things is responsible for enrollment in the Specialized High Schools, reports to…