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Efforts to change selective admissions policies fuel parent activism Min
Lee Cheng graduated from San Francisco’s Lowell High School in 1985. He counts himself one of the lucky ones. Lowell High, which was the only local public school specifically for high-performing students, had a strict racial-quota admissions policy when he applied. No racial or ethnic group could comprise more than 40 percent of the school’s student body. The rule was aimed at desegregating the district, but even as a teenager, Cheng found it unfair. It meant that Asian students had to score higher on the entrance exam than white students, who in turn had to score higher on the exam than Black and Hispanic applicants. Cheng’s friend his orchestra partner was not admitted, though if he had been of a different race he might have earned a seat. The boy’s parents were poor immigrants his father a waiter and his mother a seamstress. “He would have gotten in, but for being Chine
These Are the 100 Best Public High Schools in America
By Lexi Pandell, Stacker News
On 1/27/21 at 8:00 PM EST
As filmmaker and writer Nora Ephron said during a 96 commencement address at Wellesley College, Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead. If that s the case, high school may be one of the greatest dress rehearsals of all.
It s a place where students explore their interests, dive into extracurricular activities, finally get the freedom to choose their own classes, and prepare for college or the workplace. For many of these students and their families, public education is key: 56.4 million students enrolled in public elementary and secondary schools in 2020; and there are almost 24,000 public high schools in the U.S., according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
Forensics Rule 1: It’s not ‘The Dump.’ It’s ‘The Landfill’ | Pamela’s Food Service Diary
Updated Jan 24, 2021;
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Recently reconnected with friends from St. Joseph Hill Academy, I’ve been thinking a lot about that time in the mid-1980s. It was a world of saddle shoes and postman blue uniforms, nuns and structure under the solid leadership of the late Sr. M. Charlotte Gulban and life on the road with the forensics team and our coaches, the late Sr. M. Raimonde Bartus and Mrs. Mary Jane Truckenbrodt.
Forensics is public speaking reading prose or poetry, writing and delivering original speeches, performing extemporaneously on absolutely anything and becoming experts in current events to competently debate anyone.
NYC posted wrong deadlines for specialized high school exam, report says
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
Posted Jan 20, 2021
The city Department of Education posted incorrect registration deadline information for the specialized high school exam, causing confusion among parents, according to a recent report. Graduates at Staten Island Technical High School are shown here in this file photo, taken before the coronavirus pandemic. (Staten Island Advance)Staten Island Advance
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. There was confusion and panic among New York City parents this weekend, after the city Department of Education (DOE) posted incorrect registration deadlines for the specialized high school exam, according to the New York Post.