Dream Factories - Specialized High Schools in New York City

New York City's Specialized High Schools are among the best in the world. They've produced 14 Nobel Prize winners - more than many countries. The schools are free, and open to anyone who can pass a rigorous admissions test.

Meanwhile, the city’s regular public schools are in bad shape: grade inflation scandals, cheating, low attendance, low proficiency on statewide tests. To distract from failing public schools, the de Blasio administration set its sights on the Specialized High Schools, implying that too many Asian students attend, thus preventing Black and Hispanics from getting in.

They've instituted an expansion of the admissions to the Specialized High Schools that is specifically designed to limit Asian students, and want to do away with the test altogether for being racist. The actual history tells a different story altogether: every generation of these schools has had a different demographic makeup. But today, it is Asian students, often from low-income immigrant families, who are excelling at the test. And their parents are fighting back against de Blasio's efforts with the help of Pacific Legal Foundation.

Pacific Legal Foundation believes that every person should be treated equally before the law and opposes all forms of racial discrimination by government, both overt and covert. Learn more here: https://pacificlegal.org/equality-bef...


About Pacific Legal Foundation:

Pacific Legal Foundation is a nonprofit legal organization that defends Americans’ liberties when threatened by government overreach and abuse. We sue the government when it violates Americans’ constitutional rights—and win!

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