New York City’s selective high schools will not consider state test scores in admissions, over the objections of parents who pushed for what was originally an emergency measure that was to end after ...

The district’s eight graders will take the PreACT 9 Secure exam in October instead of the current HSAT. The new test is more than twice as long and won’t be offered in multiple languages, like the ...

Over a sharp dissent by two justices, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up a challenge to the admissions plan for a highly selective K-12 magnet school in a case that many ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael J. Petrilli covers all things K12 education policy and reform. A recent article in the Boston Globe dug into a controversy ...

A federal appeals court has upheld a facially race-neutral admissions program for the Boston school system’s selective “exam schools,” ruling that a plan based in part on socioeconomic factors passes ...

Whether it's with a goal of attending an Ivy League or other top university or merely to seek an academic challenge, some students pursue an education at a competitive high school. These are public ...

A federal judge in the Southern District of New York dismissed a lawsuit that accused city leaders of “gerrymandering” the city’s selective high school admissions process in 2018, with plaintiffs ...

Ian Rowe and Stefan Redding Lollinger debated Selective Public High Schools and DEI on The Disagreement. Selective Public High Schools, also known as “Exam Schools”, are elite publicly funded high ...

Students would be able to join their neighborhood high school automatically. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the city school board may be making big changes by taking away selective enrollment and ...

During his campaign for mayor, Brandon Johnson put out a statement saying that he would not get rid of Chicago’s selective-enrollment schools. Those of us who kept receipts know that precise words ...