Tag: discovery
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Black and Latino enrollment in NYC specialized high school integration program still lags
after 4,050 test takers received an offer based on their test scores, the city extended offers to 855 students to participate this summer in the Discovery program. (Not everyone who gets invited into the program will accept the offer or end up enrolling at a specialized high school.) Nearly 60%, or 509, of the participants…
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Challengers of Affirmative Action Have a New Target: New York City’s Elite High Schools
This week, the Pacific Legal Foundation, a conservative, libertarian-leaning law firm that has a history of challenging affirmative action policies, filed the first lawsuit against his admissions reform proposal, which he announced this summer. But the suit does not take on the part of Mr. de Blasio’s proposal that has provoked the most controversy: a plan that…
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Parents Mull Suit Over City Plan to Boost Diversity at Elite Schools
Vito LaBella, president of the Christa McAuliffe Parent Teacher Organization, said that if parents decide to forge ahead, the federal suit would challenge this set-aside plan. “It’s discriminatory,” he said. “I do believe our children would no longer be allowed to partake in Discovery.” Currently the small Discovery program is available to disadvantaged applicants citywide.…
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Stuyvesant High School Black Alumni Diversity Initiative: Letter To Chancellor Carranza
Below is an open letter to Chancellor Richard A. Carranza from the Stuyvesant High School Black Alumni Diversity Initiative (SHSBADI). SHSBADI was formed in 2010 to address the declining enrollment of Black and Latinx students at Stuyvesant and the city’s other specialized high schools. The letter below outlines SHSBADI’s recommendations for ways to increase the number of Black and Latinx students…
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Discovery Expansion: Elite New York High Schools to Offer 1 in 5 Slots to Those Below Cutoff
By 2020, 20 percent of the ninth-grade seats in every specialized high school will be set aside for Discovery students, according to city education officials. Currently, only 5 percent of the 4,000 ninth-grade seats are filled through Discovery. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/nyregion/discovery-program-specialized-schools-nyc.html
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Questions raised about aptitude tests
Fox news interviews students and other stakeholders about the SHSAT “It’s not the right way to evaluate a student’s merit,” said Muhammad Deen, no other college uses one single test. Deen says he came just below the cutoff to get into Brooklyn tech and instead ended up attending a charter school. He and Morales support…