What is not being discussed about SHSAT
High absenteeism, scholarships for private schools, and the end of G&T programs
Last week the NYC Department of Education published the admissions demographics for the incoming class of students at the specialized high schools. The same old articles were rewritten highlighting the low number of minority students at these schools.
Thank God we have Alina Adams who explained a few years ago the obvious problem: if you eliminate Gift & Talented programs in school districts where the majority of minority students are, what do you think it will be the impact on the pipeline of minority students who can excel at this very challenging test?
I wrote at City Journal how two other issues are overlooked in this debate: high absenteeism for black/Hispanic students and the generous scholarships for private schools that are available for exceptional black and Hispanic students.
Its also important to know that 55% of students at these schools are low income based on data from NYSED.
Criticizing the SHSAT results it is the same as Trump firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he doesn’t like the latest jobs report. You are shooting the messenger because you don’t like the message.
What I am reading lately
I read “To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery in the Gilded Age” and loved it! It’s about rich American girls in the 1800s who could not be accepted by NY’s old money society and went to England in search of noble bachelors who were usually bankrupt. I never watched Downtown Abbey so it is all news to me… Who knew that Winston Churchill’s mother was American?
How Do Kids in Top-Spending States Perform on NAEP? Not as Well as You’d Think (The 74)
Jamaal Bowman, Mamdani’s pick for education, operated a radical NYC school without a license (NY Post)
Schools must make classrooms sane again — and ditch ‘restorative justice’ (NY Post)
Why did NYC Department of Education spend $745,000 at a single Brooklyn restaurant last fiscal year? (amNY)
NYC school secretary who 'robbed students' admits embezzling $145K in taxpayer funds, avoids prison (NY Post)
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