My mistake. I read about it today on Bloomberg but you cant post Bloomberg articles on FreeRepublic. I thought the NY Daily News story was from this week.
The update is that now there is a bill in
"the legislature backed by the teachers union and set to be reintroduced next year would allow use of other measures, including grades, attendance and scores on other exams."
Here is the Bloomberg article
Who Gets Into NYC's Elite Schools? Wrong Mix of Kids, De Blasio Says, Fighting Test