New York City’s education department has released new data highlighting ongoing problems in the city’s pre-K programs, while showing that once again very few Black and Latino students were admitted to the city’s specialized high schools.
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, leading to tens of thousands of empty seats. Meanwhile, plans to expand the program relied on stimulus dollars, which are running out. The education department said a new analysis revealed 30,000 unused seats in 3-K and pre-K. Banks had originally claimed there were as many as 40,000 unused seats. Racial demographics of admissions to the city’s specialized high schools, which require passing a controversial standardized admissions test, remained stubbornly consistent with previous years. Only seven Black and 20 Latino students were admitted to Stuyvesant High School in a class of 760.While the Adams administration allowed some middle schools to return to selective admissions criteria after a pause during the pandemic, far fewer schools elected to do so.
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