With the stroke of a pen, Mayor Bill de Blasio could change the admission criteria for the five elite schools created by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg (Stuyvesant is not one of them). He wants state lawmakers to change the rules for all the elite high schools. (On Tuesday evening, Mr. Heastie wrote on Twitter that the Assembly might hold hearings on the issue in May.) More racial diversity at elite high schools. And whatever changes are made, Asian-Americans stand to lose a large number of the seats they hold.

Source: New York Times March 20, 2019 09:56 UTC