elite high schools
Bill de Blasio suddenly changes tune on testing for elite high schools
Mayor Bill de Blasio indicated for the first time Wednesday that he's open to keeping the admissions tests for the city's elite public high schools, in a major departure from...
Maspeth High School alum's shocking admission about school's 'no fail' policy
An elite Queens high-school accused of rampant grade-fixing graduated a student who never went to class and never completed homework assignments and showed up to classes stoned.
Angry Asian-American protesters swarm Richard Carranza's car in Brooklyn
The sign-waving demonstrators couldn't see the embattled schools boss through the vehicle's tinted windows — but were able to clearly express their anger over changes to admissions policy at the...
Student busted brazenly cheating during test at elite Bronx high school
David Suker, a teacher proctoring the exam, spotted the brazen teen “texting and looking at his iPhone while taking the exam” and reported it to Department of Education officials.
State Senate won't back de Blasio plan to overhaul high school admissions
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s controversial plan to scrap the single admissions test that determines entry into the city’s specialized high schools is dead this year, a key state senator said...
Comrie wants more opportunity -- Carranza's just finding jobs for cronies
Kudos to state Sen. Leroy Comrie for coming up with a serious plan to get more black and Hispanic kids into the city’s best high schools: by adding opportunity, not...
Queens pol pushing bill to save specialized HS exam
Hit the books, Mr. Mayor! A Queens state senator has introduced legislation that repudiates Mayor Bill de Blasio’s controversial push to scrap New York’s specialized high schools admissions exam. Instead,...
De Blasio’s bogus bid at appeasing Asian-American anger
Mayor de Blasio met Thursday with Asian-American community leaders to try to undo the damage from his yearlong drive to slash by 50 percent the number of Asian kids who...
Exploiting kids to push racial division: Team de Blasio's new low
Just when you think Team de Blasio’s drive to destroy the city’s top high schools couldn’t get any crazier, the Mayor’s Office drops a YouTube agitprop video exploiting kids. The...
Carranza's lunatic war on 'toxic whiteness'
We look forward to hearing Mayor Bill de Blasio answer questions on the presidential campaign trail about the city school system’s decision to wage war on “toxic whiteness” — defined...
'Do as I say, not as I do' is Bill de Blasio rule for governing
If the Bill de Blasio mayoral reign had a catch phrase, it would be: “Do as I say, not as I do.” A few days ago, the New York Daily...
Jumaane Williams stands tall for real justice in education
For all our disagreements with Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, we’ve always seen him as a gifted politician. That makes it all the more impressive that he’s just staked out a...
Iran's nuke-deal pullout will backfire and other commentary
From the right: Dems’ Cynical Charges Against Barr Of all the routes to pursue contempt charges against Attorney General William Barr, warns ex-prosecutor Andrew McCarthy at Fox News, House Democrats...
Undercover cop ridiculed by students at Bronx Science while acting on tip
The Bronx High School of Science welcomed an unusual visitor to its campus recently — and it wasn’t one of its eight Nobel Prize-winning alumni or a Harvard recruiter. It...
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...
De Blasio needs to focus on the '99 percent' in NYC's schools
New York education leaders are obsessed with one number: seven. That’s how many black students received an offer to attend Stuyvesant High School this year, based on results of the...
Corey Johnson’s rotten ‘solution’ for the city’s top high schools
Sorry, CoJo: The last thing New York needs is a panel dominated by Mayor de Blasio’s appointees to recommend a new admissions system for the city’s top public high schools....
Standing up for excellence and opportunity at NYC’s top high schools
Students, families and alumni of the city’s specialized high schools just got new allies in their fight to stop Mayor Bill de Blasio from destroying those elite schools. On Monday,...
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...
Parents say Richard Carranza calls them racist for opposing diversity program
NYC schools Chancellor Richard Carranza is stifling the debate on student diversity by tarring parents as racist when they protest his controversial proposals, white and black parents told The Post.