NYC is going through the same thing and it's really awful. They have danced around a wild mix of policies to encourage meritocracy through testing, school choice across boroughs, charter schools. I am all for equity and inclusion, but achieving it by changing the rules of admission to top schools is the lamest answer. What we need are for schools to be better. Let's stop having so many bad schools that people run away from. Unfortunately, that's the hard problem we don't have an answer for. And the author of this article isn't presenting any decent solutions either.
