A Tale of Three Schools

InMarch, we learned that New York City’s most selective public high school admitted only 7 black students and 33 Hispanic students among its 895 admission offers. The results were only marginally better for the city’s seven other specialized high schools. Although this is not a new problem, black and Latino enrollment at the schools has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/03/nyregion/nyc-public-schools-black-hispanic-students.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">dropped drastically over the past thirty years</a>. This year’s results laid bare the urgent need to overhaul the single, high-stakes test governing specialized high school admissions. Access to the most elite public schools — schools paid for by the city’s taxpayers — are limited almost exclusively to white and Asian-American students, despite black and Hispanic students making up nearly 70 percent of the total public school population. <a href="https://medium.com/@andrewmso/a-tale-of-three-schools-f23939da8ca4">Visit Now</a>