"EQUITY" ISSUES IN EDUCATION, NYC NOW DISCOUNTS GOOD GRADES, BEWILDERING DOE SYSTEM TRIES TO BOOST EQUITY BASED ON A COMPLEX MATHEMATICAL FORMULA

The city’s high school application process is now a crapshoot — and top grades barely matter.

One month before the application deadline, the Department of Education unveiled its long-awaited new admission system, lowering the bar for entry into many competitive high schools — and tossing kids with a range of academic achievement into a random hopper. “It’s now essentially a lottery system masquerading as a selective process,” said Effie Zakry, a vice-president of the Citywide Council on High Schools, a DOE parental advisory body.....The DOE’s bewildering new system, an effort to boost equity in nearly 400 high schools, is based on a complex mathematical formula. READ MORE AT https://nypost.com/2022/02/05/nycs-new-high-school-selection-setup-discounts-good-grades/

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