Asian students lose in new NYC school admission system

Asian students were the biggest losers under new lottery-style admission rules for public high schools that minimize the importance of good grades — with 30 percent of applicants failing to land any of their top 5 choices, new Department of Education data reveals.

Of the 12,082 Asians applying for freshman seats in city schools in the fall, only 8,484 — or 70 percent — secured one of their top 5 picks. By comparison, 90 percent of black kids and 89 percent of Hispanics — two groups that together totaled more than 45.069 of the 71.349- applicants — scored one of their top 5 choices.

Seventy-six percent of the city’s 9,767 white applicants landed one of their top 5 selections, while another 4,431 students who classified themselves “multi-racial” saw the worst results at only 68%. The citywide average was 83%.

“As you can see, the ones who lost out the most

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Some US Schools Build Housing to Keep Teachers

Recently, a high school teacher in California’s San Francisco Bay area moved out of a small apartment that she shared and into her own place.

For 41-year-old Lisa Raskin, a San Francisco native, this was once an impossible dream. In the city of San Francisco, property is very costly. Rent payments are high. And there is resistance to new housing.

But now, Raskin pays $1,500 a month for a one-bedroom apartment. And her new home is within walking distance of her job.

She told the Associated Press, or AP, “I have a sense of community, which I think is more valuable than anything else. More districts really need to consider this model. I think it shows educators that they value them.”

Her employer is a 4,000-student school district south of San Francisco. In May, that district made 122 apartments available for its teachers and workers.

Experts are calling it “workforce

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DC Schools covid vaccine mandate rare among national school systems

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DC students who are 12 and older must be vaccinated against the coronavirus to attend school this upcoming academic year.

The youth vaccine mandate in DC is among the strictest in the nation, according to health experts, and is being enacted in a city with wide disparities in vaccination rates between its White and Black children. Overall, about 85 percent of students between the ages of 12 and 15 have been vaccinated against the virus, but the rate drops to 60 percent among Black children in this age range.

If the city does not close this gap but does strictly enforce the vaccine mandate this fall, students of color — who experienced disproportionately large academic setbacks during the pandemic — could be at home in significant numbers next academic year.

“Our goal is that no child should miss a single day of school,” Asad Bandealy,

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