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New Entry Criteria Draw Criticism
Changes to admission to New York City public school gifted and talented programs raised concerns that standardized testing
promoted racial disparities. Above, students in a pre-K class at P.S. 105 in the Bronx. Below, a student at P.S. 124 in Manhattan.
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said he plans to participate
when the city hosts public-
feedback sessions to devise
new
admissions
criteria,
something Mayor Bill de Bla-
sio has said he would do.
Mr. Broomes and other sup-
porters of testing believe the
program could diversify by ad-
ministering the test to all stu-
dents in the city, instead of
only to those whose parents
sign them up.
The DOE also could place
the program in more neighbor-
hoods where minority families
live, said Mr. Broomes, whose
Brooklyn-based family traveled
two hours a day by train for
their sons to attend classes at
the Anderson School on Man-
hattan’s Upper West Side.
It also could raise aware-
ness about the program in mi-
nority communities, as many
of these families often don’t
know about the program or of-
ten opt to send their children
to
highly ranked
charter
schools to avoid long com-
NYC preschoolers
will be selected by
lottery for gifted and
talented programs.
students. The city had set that
threshold for closure in the
summer, when cases were low.
City officials later reconsid-
ered the threshold and in De-
cember allowed elementary
schools to reopen for some in-
person
learning,
but
the
mayor kept middle- and high-
school students remote until
the recent reopening an-
nouncements.
Some high-school buildings
have never opened this aca-
demic year because of ventila-
tion concerns. But in many
cases classes were relocated
elsewhere.
New York City public high
schools will reopen on March
22 for some in-person learn-
ing, after being closed for
months because of Covid-19
restrictions.
About 55,000 students and
17,000 school staff are ex-
pected to return to 488 high
schools, the city’s Department
of Education said Monday
morning. In total, there are
282,000 high-school students
in the DOE’s system. Under the
plan, about half of high
schools will be able to serve
“all or most” of their students
five days a week, and the
number will continue to in-
crease in the coming weeks,
the agency said. High-school
staff will return to buildings
on March 18 and 19 to prepare
for the reopening.
Additionally,
the
DOE’s
sports program, the Public
Schools Athletic League, will
resume sports for both in-per-
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