These high schools won’t last long. Too conspicuously embarrassing to blacks and they are not in sync with general progressive trend of the country. Progressives will find a way to destroy them or at least reform them
These high schools have been a part of the New York landscape for quite some time. If you remember Fame the movie it was about LaGuadia HS which is one of the 8 specialized schools in the system which only admit based on the test. There are also magnet schools which do admissions based on grades and are a tier below the specialized high schools. NYC public high schools run the gambit from some of the best in the country to some of the worst.
My child attended one of the specialized schools. All his classmates have done very well and most are overachievers. The issue is the politicians constantly want to open the system up to the underachievers because of demographics. Once they do this NYC will lose many of their top rated schools positions. They are cauch between a rock and a hard place so to speak.
According to the article, they tried to destroy them but didn’t work in New York or San Francisco so they went back to original intent.