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"Tier" System Favors Private Schoolers
By Alexander Russo, today at 7:46 am
Lots of political news related to education in today's news -- campaign donations from IEA, Berrios vs. Guzzardi -- along with a few other things like HIV infection rates and LSC lawsuits. There are also three pieces about selective enrollment, one of which (the WBEZ story) shows that the "tier" system results in wildly disrpoportionate acceptance rates for white, well-off, private school kids: "In spite of logarithms and formulas, if you walk into the city’s best high schools, freshmen from the wealthiest parts of