It’s application season for NYC’s public high schools, and while the education department has promised a more streamlined process, parents say they are as confused and anxious as ever. “I would say everything about this is daunting and overwhelming.'
, “Of the 30 most academically screened high schools, 27 are majority white and Asian .”
But Elissa Stein, a consultant who works with parents on navigating public school admissions, said it doesn’t make sense to allow some schools to use their own criteria while others don’t. “For this exercise in democratization to work, everyone has to participate in it,” she said.
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