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  • High-Stakes Standardized Testing Supporter: Ron T. Kim

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    Name: Ron T. KimAssembly Link: https://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Ron-KimWikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Kim_(politician)Ballotpedia: https://ballotpedia.org/Ron_Kim_(New_York_assemblyman)Phone: 718-445-0004 Assembly-member  Ron T. Kim seats on the Democrat Senate’s Education Committee.  He’s a proponent of keeping the SHSAT exam as the SOLE measure of merit for access to Specialized High Schools. Media: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-carl-heastie-school-desegregation-20180607-story.html Response to 2018 SHSAT Results After lobbying to kill the 2018 SHSAT reform bill, Assembly-member Kim…

  • Pro-SHSAT Activists have Spent over Quarter Million Dollars Lobbying NY Democrats

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    Some advocates for keeping the test have decided to invest in lobbyists. The alumni foundation for Bronx High School of Science, one of the elite high schools, signed a $96,000 contract with lobbying firm Bolton-St. John, according to public filings. Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation, which renewed a $120,000 contract with firm Yoswein, has lobbied for…

  • High-Stakes Standardized Testing Supporter: John Liu

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    Name: John LiuSenate Link: https://www.nysenate.gov/senators/john-c-liuBallotpedia: https://ballotpedia.org/John_LiuPhone: 718-765-6675 Senator John Liu is a supporter of keeping the SHSAT exam as the SOLE measure of merit for admissions to Specialized High Schools. Senator Liu leads the Democrat Senate NYC Education committee. Which means he gets to decide what NYC education bills are brought to the Senate floor.…

  • Testimony regarding segregation in New York City public schools

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    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…

  • New York City High Schools’ Endless Segregation Problem

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    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…

  • Aren’t Most Specialized High School Students Poor?

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    Specialized high schools are demographically wealthier than almost all other NYC public schools. In other words, the SHSAT exam has found a way to favor wealthier students over poorer students. But the mayor’s 2018 proposal statistically increases the number of poor students at specialized high schools. According to DoE data, out of NYC’s over 500…

  • Overemphasizing a Test, Oversimplifying Our Children: An APA Perspective on Specialized High School Reform towards Educational Equity

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    The SHSAT is misperceived as an objective, and “colorblind” tool to measure merit. However, an expansive body of research reveals that school screening policies that do not consider race or socioeconomic status do not reduce, but rather contribute to further “stratification by race and ethnicity across schools and programs.” […] In the field of testing,…

  • High-Stakes Standardized Testing Supporter: Toby Ann Stavisky

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    Name: Toby Ann Stavisky Senate Link: https://www.nysenate.gov/senators/toby-ann-stavisky Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Ann_Stavisky Ballotpedia: https://ballotpedia.org/Toby_Ann_Stavisky Phone: 718-939-0195 Senator Stavisky is the ranking member on the Democrat Senate’s Education Committee. She’s also a vocal proponent of keeping the SHSAT exam as the SOLE measure of merit for access to Specialized High Schools. Her son’s lobbying firm also recently took a…

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

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    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…

  • Attorney Launches ‘DREAMChasers’ Program to Help Underrepresented Students Prepare for SHSAT

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    The students have been studying with instructors from Khan’s Tutorial. The 11 month course normally costs around $2,500. But these classes, for students from low-income homes, are free—thanks to a program called DREAMChasers. It was created by attorney and Bronx Science alum Jason Clark after visiting his old school and noticing the lack of diversity.…