Very Few Blacks, Hispanics Admitted To Top Public Schools

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They're public schools, but not everyone can get in.

Increasingly, fewer and fewer African-American and Hispanic students are being admitted to New York City's best public schools.

Only 4 percent of students accepted to the city's seven specialized high schools were African American and only 6 percent were Hispanic. 35 percent of accepted students identified as Asian and 30 percent were white.

At the Bronx High School of Science, Brooklyn Technical High School and Stuyvesant High School, often touted as the best of the public schools, the percentage of African-American and Hispanic students attending has been declining since the mid-1990s.

In an effort to address the decreasing numbers of minority admissions, the city has sponsored test preparation programs in low-income areas and increased outreach efforts in poor neighborhoods. But the city has rebuffed calls to change the admissions process, arguing that the test is fair.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/14/public-school-admissions_n_822893.html

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1. another way things seem to be regressing

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