Yiatin Chu recalled a June 13 meeting at Gracie Mansion where she and four other parent activists from the Asian community came to discuss their concerns about a bill to abolish the test used to determine admission to the city’s specialized high schools with Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza and discovered they were outnumbered by 15 representatives from Asian non-profit organizations that generally supported the plan.
“I went up to Carranza afterward and I said, ‘I felt like this meeting was stacked,’ ” she said in a July 9 interview. “You invited only five parents, and these other people are from organizations that get city money.”
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