The Blackout At Stuy High

Public education for the Gifted & Talented (G &
T) in the city comes in two big waves: when kids are applying to kindergarten,
and later on to high school. In both cases, the percentage of minority
enrollment is glaringly low–and nowhere more so than at Stuyvesant
High School, the city’s premiere
school for advanced learners. What’s going on? For starters, check out the investigative report by one of our sister publications, Our Town,
about a program to help minority students that seems to have withered away
under murky circumstances. The president of New York Family‘s parent
company, Manhattan Media, also followed up with this recent opinion piece in the Daily News
about the “blackout” at Stuyvesant and Bronx Science.