The diminishing number of black students at Stuyvesant and other NYC selective high schools
There is an interesting NY Times article about the diminishing numbers of black students at Stuyvesant and other Specialized Science High Schools (SSHS) in NYC. It includes the following statement:
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Over the years, there have been a host of efforts to increase the number of black and Latino students at Stuyvesant and the other large specialized high schools in the city, Bronx High School of Science and Brooklyn Technical High School, like making interviews and grade-point averages part of the admissions process.
It is linked to an article that mentions an earlier DOE program to prep promising middle school minority students for the exam (which now has been recast as a program for economically disadvantaged students and has been heavily cut back in any case.) But it has no info that I can see about any efforts on the part of city to change the actual admissions process which is based solely on one high-stakes exam.
When there was a push by some advocates and elected officials to make the