New York City’s selective high schools will not consider state test scores in admissions, over the objections of parents who pushed for what was originally an emergency measure that was to end after ...

Students would be able to join their neighborhood high school automatically. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the city school board may be making big changes by taking away selective enrollment and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael J. Petrilli covers all things K12 education policy and reform. A recent article in the Boston Globe dug into a controversy ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department said Thursday it is opening a civil rights investigation into Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia over the admissions policy at an elite, selective ...

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On February 2, 2026, in Sargent v. School District of Philadelphia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment for the School District of ...

Ian Rowe and Stefan Redding Lollinger debated Selective Public High Schools and DEI on The Disagreement. Selective Public High Schools, also known as “Exam Schools”, are elite publicly funded high ...

A federal judge in the Southern District of New York dismissed a lawsuit that accused city leaders of “gerrymandering” the city’s selective high school admissions process in 2018, with plaintiffs ...

Some big potential changes to the University of Florida's PK Yonge Developmental Research School were suggested by a UF official at a recent Board of Trustees meeting. On March 8, Penny Schwinn, vice ...