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Title: How Brooklyn's Much-Copied Diversity Plan Helped Throw its Best Middle School Into Chaos
Source: Reason
URL Source: https://reason.com/2023/01/25/how-b ... best-middle-school-into-chaos/
Published: Jan 27, 2023
Author: Matt Welch
Post Date: 2023-01-27 01:32:05 by Charles_Byrd
Keywords: None
Views: 162

When then-Mayor Bill de Blasio and the entire New York City political and educational establishment unveiled in September 2018 a trailblazing new middle-school Diversity Plan that radically changed the admissions criteria for Brooklyn's District 15 in the name of racial "equity," they chose the most symbolic possible site for the announcement: M.S. 51, the William Alexander School, in progressive (and prosperous) Park Slope.

M.S. 51, which until that moment had screened prospective incoming students for their elementary-level grades, test scores, and attendance, was by far the most sought-after middle school in a district where enrollment was always increasing, and students were routinely moving on to the city's eight elite high schools. William Alexander, where both De Blasio and then-City Councilman (now Comptroller) Brad Lander had already graduated their kids, was NYC's fourth-largest feeder into the specialized high schools in 2018 with 122; a raw number it would match again in 2019, the last class before the new admissions rules went into effect.

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