A federal judge in the Southern District of NY dismissed a lawsuit that accused city leaders of “gerrymandering” the city’s selective high school admissions process in 2018.
admissions process in 2018, with plaintiffs claiming that a plan to increase enrollment of disadvantaged students discriminated against Asian American students.
The controversy began four years ago, when former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio and former New York City Department of Education chancellor Richard Carranza announced an expansion of a city program mandated by a 1997 state law that aimed to increase the number of low-income students in the city’s most selective high schools. The “highly prestigious” schools, as the judge described them in the decision, typically admit students only through a high-stakes test or the Discovery program.
“This decision is a victory for diversity and equal opportunity in education for the city’s multi-racial, multi-ethnic student body,” Kleinman wrote in an email to NBC News.
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