A federal judge ruled this week that three special high schools in the Boston School District that require admissions tests will be exempt from testing this fall due to the epidemic and will instead use alternative admissions methods.
The school board recently voted to suspend the O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science, Boston Latin School, and Boston Latin Academy for one year due to the epidemic. The three schools have suspended admissions for one year due to the epidemic. The three schools are highly competitive, and the majority of students are of Chinese, Indian, and white descent. BPCAE) sued the school board in March for unconstitutionality, saying the new rules were discriminatory.
Federal Judge William Young called the temporary alternative admissions rule “race neutral” for one year only. The district said it will send out admissions notices by the end of April.
The newspaper previously reported that in October last year, the school board voted to suspend admissions testing for one year due to the epidemic and the difficulty of proctoring exams, and instead adopted a 20% ranking by performance and 80% allocation by zip code of address, which some parents said favored Hispanic and African-American students and hurt the rights of Asian and white students, so they asked the judge to prohibit the implementation. The Chinese parents said they did not decide to file the lawsuit lightly, but as parents, they should fight for fair educational opportunities for their children and avoid ethnicity becoming a tool for government manipulation.
The Boston Lawyers for Civil Rights said it will challenge the lawsuit on behalf of African-American, Hispanic and other affected students, alleging that the plaintiffs’ coalition misunderstood the policies and constitution of the public school system. Members of the Boston Coalition for Education Equity (BCE) say the plaintiffs in the case want to maintain the status quo ante, and that many families live in zip codes with high acceptance rates. The Massachusetts Asian American Educators Association (MAAEA) stated its support for the new rules, saying that while not perfect, they are the best response to the epidemic this year.
The plaintiffs in the case are 14 sixth-grade students of Chinese, Indian and white ethnicity, all of whom have applied for admission. Star schools in Virginia, San Francisco and New York have had similar disputes this year.
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