Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Committee on Education and Workforce

Wai Wah Chin testified in a hearing titled Leveling Down: How Equity Policies Undermine Excellence and Harm Students.

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Chairman Kevin Kiley, Ranking Member Suzanne Bonamici, and Distinguished Members of the Subcommittee:

Thank you for the opportunity to submit this testimony.

My name is Wai Wah Chin, and I’m the founding president of the Chinese American Citizens
Alliance of Greater New York, a grassroots all-volunteer organization which has, since inception, fought for meritocracy and the right of all students to be judged by their own merit, and not their melanin or identity group. We have two lawsuits against anti-Asian discrimination by our New York City and State Departments of Education, one regarding the world-renowned New York City Specialized High Schools whose alumni include fifteen Nobel Laureates—more than what most countries have—and we have supported plaintiffs in multiple lawsuits defending merit and opposing discrimination in admissions for both top secondary schools such as Thomas Jefferson High School and universities such as Harvard. I am also an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where I focus on education policy, merit, school choice, and equal rights.

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