From New York Post · · 1m 20s
NYC Council targets Asian students in admissions push
Two progressives want to limit access to elite high schools by excluding students from heavily Asian neighborhoods.
In brief
Two progressives want to limit access to elite high schools by excluding students from heavily Asian neighborhoods. Proposed changes to NYC's specialized high school admissions would disproportionately exclude low-income Asian students in the name of diversity. Originally reported by New York Post.
Blocking Asian students from elite schools
NYC Council members Nantasha Williams and Lincoln Restler want to change admissions to top public high schools, targeting areas with large Asian populations.
Hide the problem, not fix it
The proposal follows the same approach as state Education Commissioner Betty Rosa: eliminate tests that expose how poorly K-8 schools prepare black and Hispanic students.
Kill the test entirely
Williams and Restler wrote to the mayor and schools chancellor urging more admissions outside the race-blind SHSAT process, ideally eliminating the test altogether.
The Discovery program loophole
They want to limit the summer Discovery prep program to the city's 15 poorest districts. This would cut out 90% of low-income Asian kids.
Asian poverty rates ignored
Citywide poverty rates for Asian-American students match or exceed those for blacks and Latinos. Asians just live in more economically diverse neighborhoods.
Reducing one minority for another
The Asian Wave Alliance calls out the odious principle: racial diversity that requires reducing opportunities for one minority group to increase another's.
“You don't assess a fish on climbing a tree because fish can't climb trees.”
The big picture
Proposed changes to NYC's specialized high school admissions would disproportionately exclude low-income Asian students in the name of diversity.
