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New bill seeks to repeal state law governing admissions to NYC’s specialized high schools
“We’re not calling for any policies, we’re just saying the state should stay out of it,” said Assembly Member Charles Barron, a co-sponsor of the legislation introduced Wednesday. The previous bill never made it to the Senate, where Sen. John Liu was seen as an obstacle to getting legislation through the New York City education…
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Toward a Black education agenda
“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.…