Six years after the report was commissioned, the de Blasio administration released the findings of a study that determined that the exam used to decide admission to the city’s specialized high schools positively predicted high-school performance, undercutting the Mayor’s recent push to abolish the test.
Mayor de Blasio has decried that admission to the eight elite high schools is based upon a single test, and earlier this summer announced a controversial plan to eliminate the Specialized High School Admissions Test in order to increase the enrollment of black and Latino kids, who make up just 10 percent of students at those schools.
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