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    CityLaw: Racial Disparity Persists in NYC’s Examination High Schools

    Aaron Saiger
    Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. Image credit: CityLand

    Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. Image credit: CityLand

    (Editor’s Note:  The Department of Education recently released statistics on the first round of 2015 admissions for New York City’s examination high schools.  According to their report, offers to join the 2015-2016 incoming class at Stuyvesant High School counts just ten African-American and twenty Latino students.  The following by Professor Aaron Saiger of Fordham University’s School of Law was published in the January/February issue of CityLaw.)

    New York City is experiencing one of its periodic flare-ups over its eight selective “examination” high schools. As in the past, attention has focused upon what a United Federation of Teachers task force calls “the profound inequity in the admissions demographics” at the exam schools. UFT, Redefining High Performance for Entrance into Specialized High Schools 3 (March 2014). This inequity results from these schools’ practice of admitting students based exclusively upon scores on the standardized Specialized High Schools Admissions Test. Because the exam schools now function as one component in the broader current system of citywide high school choice, however, it is possible to argue that their test-only admissions in fact enhance the diversity of the system overall, their racial demographics notwithstanding.

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    Tags : Bronx High School of Science, Brooklyn Tech, CityLaw, Department of Education, Hecht-Calendra, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Stuyvesant High School
    Date:03/10/2015
    Category : CityLaw
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