Admissions Test For Elite Schools Prompts Complaint
5:07 p.m. | Updated Claiming not enough black and Latino students are gaining admission to New York City's eight specialized high schools, civil rights advocates on Thursday filed a complaint with the...
View ArticleLawmakers Tackle Specialized High Schools Admissions
State lawmakers introduced a bill to the assembly on Monday that would change the way students are admitted to New York City’s eight specialized high schools, which include Stuyvesant and Brooklyn...
View ArticleNYC Families Jump Start High School Application Process
Hundreds of New York City families used their summer break to jump start the high school admissions process by attending recent information sessions hosted by the Department of Education.On Tuesday,...
View ArticleNYC Council Pushes For More Diversity at Top Schools
The question of racial diversity in New York City's public schools came under scrutiny by the City Council on Thursday.While council members reviewed three different resolutions, the hot-button issue...
View ArticleReport: More Barriers to Diversity at Specialized High Schools Than Test
Widening admissions criteria to the specialized high schools would do little to ease the schools' racial diversity problem, and could still leave out many black students, according to a report from the...
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A Summer of Test Prep Means More Asians in the City's Elite Schools
Thirteen year-old Ibnul Islam isn't spending his summer camp or playing video games. Three days a week, he's sitting in a small class at Khan's Tutorial in Jackson Heights going over algebra equations...
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Why Test Prep May Be Key to Improving School Diversity
Eighth graders who want to get into some of New York City’s most competitive high schools must accomplish one thing: ace the test offered this weekend. It's called the SHSAT and it is the sole...
View ArticleFewer Black and Latino Students Testing for Specialized High Schools
A very small fraction of black and Hispanic students, who account for more than two thirds of all public school students in New York City, were offered seats in the city's most prestigious high...
View ArticleCity to Recruit More Blacks, Latinos for Specialized High Schools
WNYC has learned the Department of Education on Thursday will announce several new initiatives aimed at improving student diversity in the city's eight specialized high schools, where black and Latino...
View ArticleAfter a Late Start, City Recruits More Middle Schoolers for Specialized High...
The city's elite public high schools have a diversity problem. Fewer than 10 percent of those offered seats this year at Stuyvesant and the seven other specialized high schools are black and Latino,...
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Black Stuyvesant Alumni Reflect On Dismal Representation At Their High School
Editor's Note: the following article was corrected to clarify the state law that established the single-test admissions rule for New York City's specialized high schools. When enacted in 1971, it...
View ArticleTeachers, Alumni Support HS Tutoring Program Changes
Two weeks after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed to change the single-test admissions process that controls eight of the city's specialized high schools, attention has shifted to one of the...
View ArticleSummer Test-Prep Programs Are the...[Insert Superlative]
It was easy to forget that school was out for the summer at a recent visit to JHS 292, a middle school in East New York. With multiple fans blowing warm air to cool off a warmer classroom, about two...
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Studying for the Specialized High School Test Is a Family Affair
A proposal to end the test that determines admission to some of the city’s top high schools has drawn intense debate from elected officials, alumni groups, advocacy organizations, and newly minted...
View ArticleForums on Specialized High Schools, Its Test and Student Diversity Kick Off...
Outrage over acceptance numbers at New York City's specialized high schools has revived the debate, yet again, about the admissions test, the SHSAT. What's different this time is that a group of state...
View ArticleOn School Integration, More Views Within Asian-American Community Than Often...
The fight over the SHSAT, the test that determines admission to New York City’s specialized high schools, is often framed as a struggle between reformers who want to boost integration, and...
View ArticleStudents Press City Leaders to Move From Debate to Action on School...
The debate over how to better integrate New York City's deeply divided school system continues, with the city council considering various proposals, including a task force for specialized high schools,...
View ArticleRace and Specialized High School Admissions
Ahead of Thursday's public hearing in Manhattan, New York Senator John Liu (D, 11-Queens), chair of the NYC Education Committee, talks about Albany's role in addressing diversity in NYC schools,...
View ArticleAdmissions for Black And Latino Students At Specialized High Schools Are Even...
The number of Black and Latino students offered admissions to the city’s most selective high schools is extremely low again this year, and down from last spring. Overall, only 9 percent of the offers...
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