Top New York Court Tosses Race-Bias Challenge to City’s Gifted Schools
Student backpacks hang on the backs of classroom chairs at a New York City public school.
Photographer: Michael Loccisano/Getty ImagesNew York’s highest court threw out a lawsuit alleging broad discrimination against Black and Latino students in admissions to New York City’s most elite public schools.
The Court of Appeals in Albany ruled Thursday that the suing students failed to show they had been denied a “sound basic education.” A five-judge majority also said the plaintiffs failed to adequately allege discriminatory intent behind admissions policies for the City’s gifted-and-talented schools they claimed favored White and Asian students.