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The New York Specialized High School Institute (SHSI) is a free program run by the City of New York for middle school students with high test scores on citywide tests and high report card grades. The program's original intent was to expand the population of Black and Hispanic students by offering them test-taking tips and extra lessons.
The Specialized High Schools Admissions Test is the sole criterion for admission to eight of the city’s nine specialized high schools, which enroll more than 16,000 kids, per New York State law.
Their status as specialized schools was frequently threatened by factions within the New York City school system and government. As a way to preserve their special status, in 1972, the Hecht-Calandra Act was passed by the New York State Legislature, designating these schools as specialized science and math high schools for New York City. The ...
As of 2007, there are nine specialized high schools in New York City. Eight of those schools base admission on the score attained on the competitive Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT). The exception is Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where acceptance is by audition and a review of academic ...
New York City’s selective high schools will not consider state test scores in admissions, over the objections of parents who pushed for what was originally an emergency measure that was to end ...
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP); State achievement tests are standardized tests.These may be required in American public schools for the schools to receive federal funding, according to the US Public Law 107-110 originally passed as Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, and currently authorized as Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015.
Unlike most New York public high schools, students at the academy do not take the Regents examination, except the English Regent. Instead, students are required to pass performance-based assessment tests (PBATs) in English, math, science, and history with at least an 80, after completing the course for the given subject. The school's PBATs are ...
As a member school of the New York Performance Standards Consortium, Urban Academy has a waiver from the New York State testing curriculum. Students must pass only the English Language Arts Regents exam, and complete six other performance-based assessments. Students must obtain 44 credits, as in every other public school in New York.