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Education
Law group asks Supreme Court to hear new race-based admissions case at elite high school
The group alleges the school’s new admissions plan was designed to “achieve the same results as overt racial discrimination” ...
Ryan General
Asian American students less likely to be accepted to universities than white applicants: study
Asian Americans are less likely to be accepted to colleges or universities than white applicants, according to a recent study published by t...
Michelle De Pacina
Harvard admits record number of Asian American applicants amid SCOTUS affirmative action fight
Amid allegations of bias against Asian students in its admissions process, Harvard University welcomed its largest proportion of Asian Ameri...
Carl Samson
US Supreme Court poised to ban affirmative action in college admissions
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments concerning admissions programs that take race into consideration at Harvard University an...
New York City reverses on controversial high school admissions process
New York City Schools Chancellor David C. Banks announced that the city is rolling back a pandemic-era moratorium that allowed more low-inc...
New York state Sen. John Liu pushes for return to merit-based high school admissions
Sen. John C. Liu (NY-D) sent a letter to New York City’s Department of Education (DOE) Chancellor David Banks on Friday requesting to remov...
Bryan Ke
Bay Area
Lowell High School to return to merit-based admissions after San Francisco school board vote
The San Francisco Board of Education voted on Wednesday for Lowell High School to return to academic-based admissions after two years of us...
Boston
Asian and white parents sue Boston Public Schools to overturn exam school’s admission policy
An assembly of Asian and white parents filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Boston Public Schools in hopes of having at least five of their c...
Top SF high school sees record spike in failing grades after dropping merit-based admission system
San Francisco’s Lowell High School is seeing a record spike in D’s and F’s among its first batch of students admitted through a new lottery...
School board member says ‘anti-Asian feel’ to new admission policy of country’s top high school
Fairfax County school board member Abrar Omeish is under fire after a text message to another board member about the district’s admissions ...
Jiselle Lee
News
University of Maryland draws controversy for separating Asian students from ‘students of color’
The University of Maryland drew backlash over its enrollment and admissions graphic that separated Asian students from “Students of Co...
Civil Rights
University of California Faces Lawsuit Over Discrimination of Asian American Applicants
A UCLA professor and a new Asian American organization are suing the University of California for withholding records that could expose the ...