De Blasio wants to scrap admissions testing for elite high schools

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De Blasio wants to scrap admissions testing for elite high schools
NY Post, Jun 2, 2018, Selim Algar

Mayor de Blasio unveiled a plan Saturday to boost black and Latino enrollment at the city’s eight specialized high schools — and he wants to scrap admissions tests outright.

In an op-ed for education-news site Chalkbeat, de Blasio announced that 20 percent of seats at those eight schools would be reserved for low-income applicants.

Kids in the Department of Education’s Discovery Program who score just below the admissions cut-off would be given one of those saved seats, according to the plan.

“The Specialized High School Admissions Test isn’t just flawed — it’s a roadblock to justice, progress and academic excellence,” he wrote. Hizzoner said his proposals, if fully realized, would eventually induce a massive demographic shift at the specialized high schools.

“With these reforms, we expect our premier public high schools to start looking like New York City,” he wrote. “Approximately 45 percent of students would be Latino or black.”


More:  https://nypost.com/2018/06/02/de-blasio-wants-to-scrap-admissions-testing-for-elite-high-schools/

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What could go wrong?

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David Dinkins redux.