Seven New York City students who didn’t get into specialized high schools are asking the state education commissioner to ensure they get spots, saying the city’s diversity push unfairly denied them seats for the fall. Their challenge argues the city’s expansion of the so-called Discovery program will hurt the elite schools’ academic excellence. That program offers spots and free summer tutoring to low-income students with high potential who score below the test-score cutoff for admission. The petitioners ask the commissioner...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 20, 2019 13:52 UTC