NYC Public School Parents: NYC HS Success in Intel STS Continues Its Post-2002 "De-Klein"

NYC Public School Parents: NYC HS Success in Intel STS Continues Its Post-2002 "De-Klein"

NYC HS Success in Intel STS Continues Its Post-2002 "De-Klein"

by Steve Koss

One of the more disturbing educational trends in NYC public schools under Bloomberg/Klein has been the precipitous “de-Klein” in the city’s success in the Intel Science Talent Search (STS), the high school science fair equivalent of the World Cup. Last week’s announcement by STS of its three hundred 2010/2011 Semifinalists brought the unhappy news that NYC public schools’ share of that winners’ pool had shrunk yet again, this year to a dispiriting, all-time low of just fourteen students representing a mere three schools: eight from Bronx Science, five from Stuyvesant, and one from Townsend Harris. The table