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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 Stuyvesant High School and Bronx High School of Science, down 11 percent from last year, per New York...

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 schools compare at the national, state and local level.

A New York mayoral candidate and ex-MSNBC contributor who wants to end 'racist' testing to determine who gets into the city's 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 city's 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 daughter to Mark Twain Intermediate School for the Gifted and Talented, using the exact program she...