New York City’s eight specialized high schools consistently rank among the best-performing secondary schools in the nation. Each year, around 25,000 of the city’s top students sit for the ...

Many of the NYC mayoral candidates voiced support for the SHSAT and said they’d expand the number of specialized schools.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City students who are looking to gain entrance into New York City’s specialized high schools ... an in-school day testing date on Wednesday, Nov. 8.

An education panel approved a contract Wednesday night for a digital entrance exam to the city’s specialized high schools after ... Advanced Placement and New York state tests have all ...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed a plan to overhaul admissions to New York City’s elite public high schools, inviting some praise and even more backlash from students, parents and lawmakers ...

A push to digitize the entrance exam to New York City’s specialized high schools is reigniting a long ... which shakes out to about $3.8 million each year, for an already controversial test.

The test is known as the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test ... is funded by sponsors and member donations Eric Adams sues NYC Campaign Finance Board over denial of $3.4M in matching ...

Derek knew nothing about the specialized high schools or the admissions test when he began school in New York City in seventh grade. In early conversations about his high school options ...

The New York Times headline ... N.Y.’s Most Selective High School, Out of 895 Spots.” But what should be done? Mayor Bill de Blasio had already called for dropping the entrance exam for the city’s ...

A surprisingly tender one-man show guides us through the dubious business of tutoring the children of striving New York ... high schools. Often the remit was to help them study for the Specialized ...