7 NYC students who didn't get into specialized high schools say that a program offering spots to low-income students with high potential unfairly crowded them out of seats for the fall
Their challenge argues the city’s expansion of the so-called Discovery program will hurt the elite schools’ academic excellence.
That program offers spots and free summer tutoring to low-income students with high potential who score below the test-score cutoff for admission. The petitioners ask the commissioner...
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