Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. Next year’s eighth graders will ...

As an alum of the Bronx High School of Science, one of New York City’s elite specialized high schools, Zohran Mamdani had advocated ditching the controversial single test that decides admissions to ...

SOUTHERN BROOKLYN — A PENDING CONTRACT TO ADMINISTER THE SPECIALIZED HIGH SCHOOL ADMISSION TEST (SHSAT) in digital format must be approved immediately, said a bipartisan group of elected officials, ...

After 11 p.m. on December 18, the New York City Department of Education’s Panel for Education Policy (PEP) voted to approve the contract for administering the specialized high schools admissions test ...

Last month, the New York City Department of Education released the demographics for incoming ninth-graders to New York City’s eight specialized high schools—the city’s prestigious public schools that ...

A push to digitize the entrance exam to New York City’s specialized high schools is reigniting a long-standing debate over a process that relies on a single test to admit students. Ahead of the next ...