Mayor Bill de Blasio’s effort to better integrate New York City’s elite specialized high schools next fall by admitting more students who miss the test-score cutoff for entry made only small gains in adding black and Hispanic students, data released Wednesday showed. The mayor has vastly expanded the so-called Discovery initiative, a free program to help disadvantaged eighth-graders earn seats by giving them summer enrichment courses before ninth grade.

Source: Wall Street Journal April 10, 2019 18:31 UTC