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Admissions change: NYC public high schools returning to academic screening process

By Isabel Song Beer Posted on September 29, 2022
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Call it going back to basics: the city’s Department of Education is again changing its high school admissions process, returning to a policy of screening students based on academic merit, the agency announced Thursday.

It’s an aboutface from the DOE’s previous controversial lottery system in which all students had to rank their top 12 high school choices and hope they would get a seat in the school they want.

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