Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city’s eight specialized high schools are for the best and the brightest and he thinks the best way to find those students is the way it’s been done for decades, using only the results of one 2.5-hour test.
“I think that Stuyvesant and these other schools are as fair as fair can be,” he said Wednesday. “There’s nothing subjective about this. You pass the test with the higher score, you get into the school, no matter what your ethnicity, no matter what your economic background.”
But the results are that students of certain ethnicities and more privileged economic backgrounds get in at much higher rates.
