Tag: education equity campaign

Program Aims To Level Playing Field For Testing Into NYC’s Specialty High Schools

Oct 18, 2019

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Parents spend thousands of dollars, students “study to the test” for years. The most popular ( largest ) SHSAT prep program ( Kahn’s Tutorial ) reportedly charges about $2,500 for an 11-month course. Michelle Zhang, a freshman at Stuyvesant High School, knows first hand. “I was in test prep for the SHSAT for three years…
Foes of de Blasio’s high school integration plan spent close to $1M to quash it

Jul 18, 2019

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The Education Equity Campaign, a pro-test coalition which launched in February to counter the mayor’s plan, hired top firms Tusk Strategies, Bolton St. Johns and Patrick B. Jenkins & Associates to the tune of $80,000 total in May and June, according to the recent bimonthly filings with th犀利士 e state’s ethics watchdog. Those contracts cost them $65,000,…