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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has unveiled a plan to phase out his city’s Gifted and Talented program at public elementary schools, which often served as a springboard to the elite schools his own kids attended.

Behind the scenes, Education Department officials are still scrambling to figure out how to cram in every kid in the event social distancing rules are still in place by September.

On the question of reparations:There are many who argue that racism is so virulent in America and that the history of being brought to this country in chains is so

Could be in my family or my relatives. >> hear about racism. we hear about a lot of hate in the news. then its your community. it is -- you are being brought into the problem. i should do something about it. i should have done something about it long ago. >> reporter: michelle and c.j. are students at brooklyn tech. they met after her teacher suggested she reach out. why is it important for all of the students to come together? >> we are all diverse. we have our intersectionalty. all of them mat...

POSTED ON: May 10, 2021 Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image From Taesha Auroras thesis,"all my lies are always wishes" At the end of each academic year we introduce a few graduating students from all three schools. In this first of our annual Senior Snapshots series we meet Brandy Vazquez, Juan Carlos Javier and Taesha Aurora, three thesis-year students at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. Though they completed their final year via an entirely online c...

Only 8 Black students admitted into elite NYC public high school Mayor de Blasio has called for state legislation to replace the admissions exam. Bill de Blasio’s new education boss, Chancellor Meisha Ross Porter, is speaking out following reports that only a tiny percentage of Black and Latino students had been admitted into the city’s elite high schools. Per Department of Education data, Black and Latino kids made up only 9 percent of the total admission offers to elite schools like Stu...

Like so much else in New York City during the past eight years of the de Blasio administration, we have actually taken two steps backward when it comes to curing the dearth of minority students in specialized high schools like Stuyvesant, Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech.

In a school system whose total enrollment is 41% Latino, 26% Black, 16% Asian and 15% white, the specialized high schools have grown disproportionately Asian and white over the past years.

Reply Two Brooklyn high schools made it to the top 10 in New York and top 100 in the nation, according to the U.S. News and World Report ranking. (Shutterstock) BROOKLYN, NY — A Brooklyn high school has been named the second best in the state and is among the top high schools in the country, according to a new ranking by U.S. News and World Report. Brooklyn Technical High School ranked number two in the New York list of U.S. News Best High Schools for 2021, an annual ranking of how high schoo...

A New York mayoral candidate and ex-MSNBC contributor who wants to end racist testing to determine who gets into the citys elite schools had her own daughter use the program - while her other daughter attends a $51,000-a-year private school.   Maya Wiley called for the abolition of the citys Gifted and Talented program to identify high-achieving students and the removal of all forms of pre-admission testing, claiming they entrenched white privilege.  Despite this, she sent her eldest daught...