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Harvard is facing a civil rights complaint over the school’s legacy admissions after the Supreme Court ruled against race-conscious admissions practices. “Each year, Harvard College grants special preference in its admissions process to hundreds of mostly white students — not because of anything they have accomplished, but rather solely because of who their relatives are,”…
“Brooklyn teen, discouraged from getting into Stuyvesant, now MIT-bound” A Stuyvesant High School senior who was once told getting into the elite institution was “practically impossible,” just beat the odds again — landing a spot at the top college in the world. Sebastian Acevedo — who grew up with an Ecuadorian immigrant mom and a…
“NYC parent advisory group condemns school district leader Kelly McGuire” A parent advisory group in a high-performing Manhattan school district has condemned its superintendent for tossing all academic screenings in middle schools. The District 2 Community Education Council passed a rare 8-3 vote of no confidence last week after superintendent Kelly McGuire submitted a plan to rely…
“Northeastern University mistakenly sends thousands of acceptance letters to law school applicants” Over 200 current applicants to Northeastern University School of Law mistakenly received acceptance letters earlier this week. “Due to a technical error, 205 current applicants to the School of Law received an erroneous email notifying them of their acceptance into next year’s class,”…
“NYC moves away from de Blasio’s unfair high-school-admission scheme — but not far enough” Kudos to Schools Chancellor David Banks for telling kids and parents: “We do believe in high standards.” Good grades and hard work will matter again under the city’s new high school admission process. Too bad he didn’t go far enough. The…
“NYC parents, students protest new high school admission policies” Dozens of public school students and parents rallied outside the Department of Education headquarters Friday to protest new high school admission policies that are less reliant on academic records. Organized by the local group Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum Education, the families demanded that the DOE…
“De Blasio’s HS-admission lottery could destroy NYC public-schools” In a last-one-we-hope stinkbomb from the de Blasio era, public-school families across the city just got burned by the unfair lottery for high-school admissions — a travesty that’s sure to drive more students out of the system. The cockamamie system imposed during the last mayor’s last days…
“Parents uncover major glitch in NYC school lottery system” A Manhattan mom discovered an embarrassing glitch in the city Department of Education lottery system used to match students with middle and high schools. When NYC students filled out their online applications for 2022-23, each kid automatically received a long string of random numbers from 0 to…
“#NYC DOE baffles parents, bungles middle school admission offers” The Department of Education launched city parents into yet another tailspin Thursday after mistakenly posting some middle school admission offers online, before abruptly removing them. Recipients said they were surprised to see the information appear in their parent portals — and were doubly taken aback when…
“#Carranza’s deputy calls school admission decisions ‘political’” A top deputy of schools Chancellor Richard Carranza stunned parents last week when she said decisions on admission criteria for the city’s top middle and high schools are “political.” “Anything that’s as high stakes and important as — and political, to be honest — as admissions policy is…