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  • High-Stakes Standardized Testing Supporter: Robert Cornegy

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    Name: Robert CornegyCouncil Link: https://council.nyc.gov/robert-cornegy/Ballotpedia: https://ballotpedia.org/Robert_CornegyPhone: 718-919-0740 Robert Cornegy is an NYC City Council member and a candidate for Brooklyn Borough President. He represents city council district 36. Mr. Cornegy is also a firm supporter of the SHSAT specialized test as the sole measure of student ability. Even as just about every expert explains that…

  • New City Council Resolutions Push for Overhaul to School Admissions Process

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    Repeal of the 1971 Hecht-Calandra Act and transferring control of admissions to New York City’s specialized high schools to the City. The Hecht-Calandra Act made the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test the single metric that can be used to admit students to specialized high schools. By giving control of specialized high school admissions back to…

  • Video: NYC School Segregation: Rethinking the SHSAT

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    65 years after Brown v. Board of Education, segregation in public schools remains a major issue in cities across the country. New York City has one of the most segregated school systems in the country, and some see the controversial Specialized High Schools Admissions Test as part of the problem. At a City Council Oversight…

  • Hecht-Calandra Governor’s Bill Jacket

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    Research on the passing of Hecht-Calandra in 1971. This includes supporting documents from various agencies and stakeholders.

  • NYC Bar: Eliminate Competitive Admissions to NYC Public Elementary & Middle Schools

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    Equal access to educational opportunity and racially and economically integrated public schools are central goals of the SDAG and the larger civil-rights community. These goals cannot be achieved unless the New York City Department of Education eliminates competitive admissions to its elementary- and middle-school programs and schools. In the elementary-school context, New York City provides…

  • 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…

  • Entrenched positions and pleas for change: NYC council debates school integration

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    City council members on Wednesday grilled education department officials on school segregation at a joint hearing of the Education Committee and Civil and Human Rights Committee. The sharp questions and answer session took place just weeks before the 65th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. The atmosphere was a stark departure from…

  • NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson: The time to act is now on specialized high schools

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    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…

  • High-Stakes Standardized Testing Supporter: Jumaane D. Williams

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    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…