The eye-opening racial disparities in the admissions process to some of New York City’s most prestigious public schools has resulted in a call to a change to the admission process.
Eight out of 781 students admitted to Manhattan’s Stuyvesant High School being Black showcases the vast racial disparities students face in some of New York City’s most specialized and selective schools, the New York Times reports.
Specialized schools, including Stuyvesant, offer high-value education to roughly 5% of Manhattan’s high school students and are described as being the key to students from immigrant households and low-income families being admitted to the nation’s most prestigious colleges and universities. However, the low representation of Black and Hispanic students in the selective public high schools, including Brooklyn Tech and The Bronx High School of Science, has resulted in a brewing debate over race and segregation in the largest school system in the U.S…