A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accused New York City leaders of “gerrymandering” the city’s selective high school admissions process in 2018.
Zachary Schermele
Judge Edgardo Ramos on Wednesday denied the request from two Asian civil rights groups, a parent-teacher organization and Asian American parents to halt athat has since been instituted in New York City’s most selective high schools. The policy could not have been discriminatory, Ramos said, because on the whole, more students of Asian descent had been offered admission under the measure, not fewer.
In 2018, only 10% of students enrolled in the selective schools were Black or Latino, despite Black and Latino students making up nearly 70% of all students in New York City, the mayor’s officeTo address that disparity, de Blasio and Carranza, in June 2018, increased the number of slots at the schools available to students through the Discovery program from 5% to 20% of each school’s incoming class.
“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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