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Commentary By Wai Wah Chin

How NYC’s Elite High Schools Discriminate — on Mayor’s Orders

Education, Cities New York City, Education

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Yi Fang Chen’s son certainly had the grades to get into New York City’s prestigious Stuyvesant High School.

Just one problem: He’s the wrong race.

Chen’s son was the victim of the city’s Discovery Program, which was meant to be a limited, optional back door into the city’s specialized high schools for disadvantaged students who failed to meet the test cut-off.

But in 2018, then-Mayor Bill de Blasio vastly expanded Discovery admissions.

He ordered these competitive schools to offer 20% of all seats to Discovery students, with the explicit intent of admitting more black and Hispanic students at the expense of Asian teens.

Under the state’s Hecht-Calandra law, those schools — world-renowned for their 15 Nobel laureate alums — must admit students based solely on their scores on the objective, anonymous Specialized High Schools Admission Test.

Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post

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Wai Wah Chin is the founding president of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance of Greater New York.