By Cherranda Smith Apr 30, 2021 For the third consecutive year, there was a decline in admission among Black and Latino students to NYC’s top high schools. An admissions report released Thursday (April 29), showed the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the struggle for equity in the nation’s largest school system. One school, Stuyvesant High School in Brooklyn, only offered eight Black students spots into its incoming freshman class of 749 students. The dwindling numbers of Black and Latino students, for some, prove why the required admission exams to these top high schools should be eliminated. The decline in admission among Black and Latino students has continued to decline even when investments in test prep for Black and Latino students were made,