Critics target the city’s eight specialized schools for using a single test to determine who gets to enter. But other selective public high-schools use a confusing mix of admissions policies that raise their own questions about transparency and fairness.
The effort to compel the DOE to release the information is part of a years’ long effort by the Community Education Council of District 2 to turn what is often an opaque, confusing and infuriating process into one of greater fairness and greater transparency, CEC members say.
The ruling was more of a technicality than a decision on any substantive issues, noted education activists, who believe they will ultimately prevail.
NYC’s Department of Education says that sex education should be taught once in a semester in middle school and once in high school, but many students are not even receiving that bare minimum, writes the head of New York’s Planned Parenthood.
They want the city to add more schools to a federal program that provides free lunch to all students. But the DOE may have good reason to move slowly.
Parents know a school is coming to 75 Morton Street. What they don’t know is where its students will come from.
DOE is keeping the sessions closed while it appeals a judge’s order to open them up.
Some advocates say the de Blasio administration has at least made an effort to listen to their concerns.
The organization is involved in major lawsuits and lights up tabloid op-ed pages with criticisms of unions, elected officials, Chancellor Fariña and others. But their funding and membership are fuzzy.
The students at 826NYC are hunting a murderer—in the movie script they’re writing. But finding that fictional killer will be a lot easier than many kids’ real-life hunt for art programs to keep them stimulated over the summer break.
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