Elite NYC High Schools Under Fire in Revived Race Lawsuit (1)

A lawsuit accusing New York City of entrenching racial segregation in the country’s largest public school system will move ahead, with top schools like Stuyvesant and Bronx Science in the spotlight.

The issue is back in play after a panel of state appellate judges on Thursday rejected much of a lower court’s decision dismissing the lawsuit.

In the suit, a group that advocates for racial integration in New York schools claims that city and state policies disproportionately benefit White and Asian-American students by creating a “racialized” admissions pipeline to gifted-and-talented programs, as they’re called. Students compete for access to such ...