{"id":66876,"date":"2025-07-16T09:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/66876\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T09:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:38:09","slug":"state-education-honchos-must-end-new-yorks-race-based-stem-admissions-once-and-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/66876\/","title":{"rendered":"State education honchos must end New York’s race-based STEM admissions \u2014 once and for all"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York State Education Department\u2019s decision to temporarily scrap its requirement for race-based admissions for advanced STEM classes<\/a> \u2014 after a group of Asian parents and the Chinese American Citizens Alliance of Greater NY filed suit \u2014 marks some progress. <\/p>\n

But it needs to go further and drop the practice altogether.<\/p>\n

Facing a federal lawsuit, SED will, for now, let schools enroll students in their STEM programs based just on economic need, rather than racial preferences.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s still fighting to preserve those preferences in court. <\/p>\n

And schools will still be allowed to use them if they choose even in the meantime.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s an enormous disappointment. <\/p>\n

\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n

In this day and age, with much of public backing a level playing field on race (a Pew poll in December found Americans oppose affirmative action in colleges 50%-33%) \u2014 and with the unfairness of racial preferences so obvious \u2014 it\u2019s hugely disappointing that SED, Commissioner Betty Rosa and the Board of Regents seem so stuck in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was unfair and racist for my daughter to be subjected to a low-income requirement just because she is Asian when her black and Hispanic classmates weren\u2019t,\u201d fumes Yiatin Chu, a parent who spearheaded the lawsuit. <\/p>\n

She\u2019s right. There\u2019s no good, moral reason why, say, a wealthy black or Hispanic student should get preference over a poor, struggling Asian or white kid with similar skills.<\/p>\n

In 1985, the state legislature created the Science and Technology Entry Program to boost interest in STEM and health care among low-income and underrepresented minority high-school students. <\/p>\n

C-STEP is aimed at college students from those groups.<\/p>\n

Yet from its inception, the two programs openly discriminated against Asian and white students.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court\u2019s historic affirmative action ruling<\/a> in 2023 couldn\u2019t be clearer: College admissions must be race-neutral.<\/p>\n

Federal education law explicitly outlaws discrimination on the basis of race.<\/p>\n

And, as Chief Justice John Roberts thundered in the majority opinion, \u201cEliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.\u201d Hear, hear.<\/p>\n

So when will New York state officials finally treat all students equally \u2014 and scrap race-based admission to its STEM programs, once and for all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York State Education Department\u2019s decision to temporarily scrap its requirement for race-based admissions for advanced STEM…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[47330,18547,5229,47331,9157,12514,4691,27383,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,40852,47332,47333,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-66876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-affirmative-action","9":"tag-african-americans","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-asian-american","12":"tag-dei","13":"tag-diversity","14":"tag-editorial","15":"tag-hispanics","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-opinion","23":"tag-public-schools","24":"tag-racial-discrimination","25":"tag-state-education-department","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-united-states-of-america","28":"tag-unitedstates","29":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","30":"tag-us","31":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114862247344616012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}