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How NYC’s elite high schools discriminate — on mayor’s orders

Yi Fang Chen’s son certainly had the grades to get into New York City’s prestigious Stuyvesant High School.

Just one problem: He’s the wrong race.

Chen’s son was the victim of the city’s Discovery Program, which was meant to be a limited, optional back door into the city’s specialized high schools for disadvantaged students who failed to meet the test cut-off.

But in 2018, then-Mayor Bill de Blasio vastly expanded Discovery admissions.

He ordered these competitive schools to offer 20% of all seats to Discovery students, with the explicit intent of admitting more black and Hispanic students at the expense of Asian teens.

Under the state’s Hecht-Calandra law, those schools — world-renowned for their 15 Nobel laureate alums — must admit students based solely on their scores on the objective, anonymous Specialized High Schools Admission Test.

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And Chen’s son scored so close to the Stuyvesant cutoff that he would certainly have been admitted — if not for the Discovery expansion.

The city’s discriminatory........

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