Category: law
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Lawmakers, advocates launch new effort to repeal state specialized high school law amid racial justice protests
The new effort, spearheaded by the advocacy group Teens Take Charge, comes on the heels of sweeping protests against racial injustice that advocates hope will shine new light on segregation in city schools. “The recent protests really did show all of us racism is a really big issue and that we need to do better…
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A10731: We have a new bill!
This new bill calls for the repeal of the Hecht-Calandra Act. At present, there are nine specialized high schools in New York City, one of which – Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts – focuses on the arts. The other eight schools are The Bronx High School of Science,…
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Lawyers Argue the Discovery Program on Injunction Appeal
In an attempt to appeal an earlier district court preliminary injunction decision plaintiff lawyers argue that the Discovery Program is somehow racist. It should be noted that… …that the Discovery program was started in the 1960s and predates the SHSAT exam and Hecht-Calandra itself. also, the Discovery program was reserved roughly 15% of offers in…
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A Single Score No More: Rethinking the Admissions System for New York City’s Specialized High Schools to Preserve Academic Excellence and Promote Student Diversity
This paper gets a few of its core premises wrong. The SHSAT exam does NOT strongly predict academic performance nor ability. Papers put its validity at 20%. Which basically means it’s only predicting 20% of what makes a student successful. GPA comes in at about 40% as a comparison. Unlike Mayor de Blasio’s plan, this…
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Hecht-Calandra Governor’s Bill Jacket
Research on the passing of Hecht-Calandra in 1971. This includes supporting documents from various agencies and stakeholders.
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Seven NYC Students Didn’t Get Seats in Elite Schools, So They Asked State for Help
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…
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NAACP LDF Joins McAuliffe Trial
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McAuliffe vs. NYC Pretrial Conference Transcript
March 7th, 2019 [pdf-embedder url=”https://shsatsunset.org/wp-content/uploads/case-201812/McAuliffeVsNYC-01.pdf”] 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