Word: exam
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Gittens believes that the exam-school admission policies should have a "broad-based legitimacy" that city residents can all deem fair...
Last year, the 76-year-old Garrity made national headlines once again when he admitted white student Julia McLaughlin into the prestigious Boston Latin School. In doing so, he defied the court-ordered 1976 minority quota that sets aside 35 percent of each exam school's entering class for black and Hispanic students...
...December, Boston School Superintendent Thomas W. Payzant allowed entrance to the city's three exam schools to 300 students who had previously applied and been denied admittance because of the diversity guidelines. The exam schools all require standardized tests and certain grade-point cutoffs...
...earlier this year, the Boston School Committee unveiled a new admissions process for the three exam schools--Boston Latin School, Boston Latin Academy and the John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science--that would admit 50 percent of each entering class on "merit" alone...
Under the new exam school policy, the top test scorers comprise half the entering class, while to other half is made up of the top scorers from each racial group, in accordance with the proportion of that racial group in the applicant pool...