admissions
92 percent of NYC parents 'extremely concerned' about school admissions, poll finds
A poll of more than 1,000 city parents found that 92 percent are "extremely or very concerned" about Department of Education grading and admissions overhauls amid coronavirus-induced turmoil, according to...
DOE to roll out contentious admission test to more schools across city
For the first time, the Specialized High School Admission Test, SHSAT, will be offered at 55 locations across the city. In the past, the test for entrance to the eight...
De Blasio refuses to see what's needed for racial justice at NYC's schools
The debate about the Specialized High School Admissions Test is completely misplaced. As usual, Mayor Bill de Blasio and his allies are looking to put a Band-Aid on a gaping...
De Blasio ramps up 'propaganda' against specialized 'admit' exams
Ramping up its public-relations blitz against the specialized-high-school admissions test, City Hall enlisted current and former city students to blast the polarizing exam in a 22-minute YouTube video posted Friday...
Poll says majority of voters oppose de Blasio's high school admissions plan
A poll commissioned by a group opposed to Mayor Bill de Blasio's specialized high school admissions plan found that 56 percent of respondents favored the current single-test system, the organization...
'Adversity scores' only invite a new quest for victimhood
There used to be a joke that you get 200 points for simply bubbling in your name correctly on the SAT, as that was the lowest score possible on the...
Richard Carranza slams parents who question admissions changes
Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza vowed Wednesday to remake admissions to the city’s specialized high schools to enroll more black and Latino students — and got hearty cheers from nearly every...
Billionaire joins push to stop de Blasio's high school admissions test plan
Cosmetics tycoon Ron Lauder is bankrolling a multimillion-dollar effort to stop Mayor Bill de Blasio from eliminating the admissions test to the city's top high schools, sources told The Post...
What Brooklyn Tech tells you about de Blasio’s ‘massive segregation’ claim
Mayor Bill de Blasio is now claiming the city’s elite public high schools practice “massive segregation,” on the grounds that so few black and Hispanic kids pass the race-blind entrance...
Teen gets into Stuyvesant after being told 'it's practically impossible'
Sebastian Acevedo has achieved his impossible dream. When his mom told a guidance counselor at Sebastian’s Catholic grade school in Queens that he was thinking about applying to the city’s...
De Blasio says specialized high schools practice 'massive segregation'
Mayor Bill de Blasio charged Friday that the city's specialized high schools practice "massive segregation" as the controversy grows over admissions criteria to the elite institutions. “That’s why we’re doing...
City accused of keeping Asian-Americans in dark over changes to school admissions
City Hall "deliberately" kept Asian-Americans in the dark about a polarizing plan to remake admissions to the city's specialized high schools, state Sen. John Liu charged Thursday. "There was a...
The drive to change elite-school admissions is all about killing the messenger
My husband graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1985. Our oldest son graduated in 2017, and our younger son is a freshman there. My husband and our sons are African-American....
Cuomo calls on city to fix 'obnoxious problem' in high school admissions
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that it's up to the city to come up with a new admissions policy for the specialized high schools — even while calling...
Heastie wants hearings on NYC high school admissions policy
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie will be holding hearings into the admissions policy at New York City’s elite public high schools a day after it was announced that tiny numbers of...
The real issue on elite high school admissions
Critics of the test for admission to the city’s top high schools claimed vindication Monday when the racial mix for the latest test-passers was . . . basically unchanged from the 2018...
Asian students received most offers to city’s elite high schools
Asian students again dominated the city’s specialized high school admissions this year, accounting for 51.1 percent of all offers, the Department of Education announced Monday. A total of 27,521 applicants...
The mayor's new scheme for top NYC schools is illegal and racist
Last December, the Chinese American Citizens Alliance Greater New York (CACAGNY) filed a racial-discrimination lawsuit against the city after Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Richard Carranza announced changes to admissions...
Asian kids in specialized high schools would plummet under proposed admissions changes
The number of Asian kids admitted to the city’s specialized high schools would plummet by roughly half under City Hall’s proposed admissions revamp, according to a new report. The analysis...
Some parents show support for de Blasio's school diversity plan
After parents flooded a recent education meeting in Manhattan to denounce Mayor de Blasio’s plan to change admissions standards for elite high schools, some other parents have come forward to...