Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza announced sweeping changes to the middle and high school admissions process last Friday, a decision they said goes beyond the racial impacts of the current health crisis to try to address longstanding inequities in the way schools are funded.
De Blasio announced that starting now, middle schools will implement a one-year pause on admissions screens. The Department of Education will also roll out several changes to the high schools admissions process over the next two years.
âI like to say very bluntly, our mission is to redistribute wealth. A lot of people bristle at that phrase â that is in fact the phrase we need to use. We have been doing this work for seven years to more equitably redistribute resources throughout our school system,â de Blasio said at a press event Monday.