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Lawsuit Seeks To Obliterate Admissions Processes At NYC Public Schools

Lawsuit Seeks To Obliterate Admissions Processes At NYC Public Schools
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Students wait with parents before entering school for the first day of in-person learning for elementary school students since March, at P.S. 188 in NYC on September 29th, 2020.
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A group of civil rights lawyers and NYC public school students are suing the city and state over the DOE s admissions process, which they say has resulted in an inequitable education for Black and brown students, starting as early as kindergarten.
The lawsuit filed in State Supreme Court Tuesday by IntegrateNYC, a group devoted to ending school segregation, names Mayor Bill de Blasio, Governor Andrew Cuomo, and incoming Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter in the suit, alleging the long-standing admissions process, which includes the Gifted and Talented program test, screens for some middle and high schools, and the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, v ....

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Dianne Morales NYC Mayoral Candidate Interview 2021

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In her head, she envisioned a big, festive event. Celebratory. Perhaps in a park, or on a brownstone-lined street, the sun streaming through the trees. People of all races, religions, and backgrounds the people she seeks to represent would flood together in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, the neighborhood where she grew up, and she, Dianne Morales, a girl who was poor and didn’t know it, now a woman rich in the perspective that comes from a life spent proving people wrong, would stand on a platform and declare that she was a candidate for mayor of New York City a city brimming with possibility, but one that has yet to live up to its potential as the greatest in the world. ....

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Why These 2 N.Y.C. Mayoral Candidates Are on a Collision Course

Why These 2 N.Y.C. Mayoral Candidates Are on a Collision Course
Eric Adams, the Brooklyn borough president, and Ray McGuire, a former Citi executive, have become fast rivals in the New York City mayoral race.
Ever since Ray McGuire, right, entered New York’s mayoral race, he has vied with Eric Adams, left, to capture Black political influencers and voters.Credit.Jose A. Alvarado Jr. for The New York Times
Published March 2, 2021Updated March 15, 2021
Just a few days after Raymond J. McGuire officially joined the New York City mayor’s race in December, a courtesy call came in from one of his Democratic rivals, Eric Adams. ....

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S.F.'s Lowell isn't the only selective school to come under fire. Here's a look at others across U.S.

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1of2Lowell High School is seen in San Francisco, Calif. on Monday, Feb 1, 2021. An effort to address a lack of diversity and address concerns over racist incidents led to the school board’s abrupt proposal this week to eliminate the selective admissions process in favor of a random lottery like the district’s other high schools.Marlena Sloss / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
2of2Lowell High School is seen in San Francisco, Calif. on Monday, Feb 1, 2021. An effort to address a lack of diversity and address concerns over racist incidents led to the school board’s abrupt proposal this week to eliminate the selective admissions process in favor of a random lottery like the district’s other high schools.Marlena Sloss / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less ....

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Middle school screens eliminated

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. ....

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