Tag: lawsuit
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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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NAACP 2012 Case: New York City Specialized High School Complaint
In school districts across the nation, talented African Americans and other students of color are denied a fair opportunity to gain access to the life-changing educational experiences provided by specialized schools for high-achieving students and gifted/talented education programs. As a result, elite public schools and programs, which provide key pathways to college and then to…
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Brooklyn: Action Filed Over School Admissions
The first legal challenge against Hecht-Calandra was launched in 1974. Only 3 years after the law was passed. Since then there’s been a number of legal actions. Here’s one from 2007. A public-interest law firm in Washington filed a class-action lawsuit against the New York City Education Department yesterday, charging that a program created to…