Matteo to NYC: Reconsider middle school application changes that ‘discourage excellence’
Updated Dec 20, 2020;
Posted Dec 20, 2020
Councilman Steven Matteo is calling for the mayor and schools chancellor to reconsider admissions changes for competitive middle schools. (Staten Island Advance/Annalise Knudson)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. After New York City announced sweeping changes to the city’s specialized high school and competitive middle school application process on Friday, Councilman Steve Matteo (R-Mid-Island) is asking Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard A. Carranza to reconsider the new screening policy for middle school applications.
In a letter to the mayor and chancellor, Matteo is asking for the city to reconsider the middle school application screening policy and seek an alternative screening option, such as the city is doing for high school applications.
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New York City Will Change Many Selective Schools to Address Segregation
Eliza Shapiro, New York Times, December 18, 2020
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Friday major changes to the way hundreds of New York City’s selective middle and high schools admit their students, a move intended to address long-simmering concerns that admissions policies have discriminated against Black and Latino students and exacerbated segregation in the country’s largest school district.
New York is more reliant on high-stakes admissions requirements than any other district in the country, and the mayor has for years faced mounting pressure to take more forceful action to desegregate the city’s racially and socioeconomically divided public schools. Black and Latino students are significantly underrepresented in selective middle and high schools, though they represent nearly 70 percent of the district’s 1.1 million students.
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