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Students, parents and advocates are demanding the city safeguard the entrance exam for its eight elite, specialized high schools ahead of a crucial vote next week which could decide whether the test ...

New York City’s controversial Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT) will be digitised under a new five-year, $17 million contract with Pearson. Despite concerns over the test’s role in ...

A push to digitize the entrance exam to New York City’s specialized high schools is reigniting a long-standing debate over a process that relies on a single test to admit students. Ahead of the next ...

CITYWIDE — The push to computerize the admissions test for the city’s specialized high schools has revived a debate on equity, reported the Daily News on Sunday, Nov. 24. A vote on a decision to ...

Public school families are once again feeling a sense of dread — fearing the city won’t OK a contract for the Specialized High Schools Admission Test, which would leave their kids in a lurch about ...