How Bad Schools Fail Our Children: A Firsthand Account

"This is what it looks like when our schools are unequal. And I should know, I paid the price for attending one of them."

by Justin Rosario

Last week, the New York Times wrote a story about how only seven black students got into Stuyvesant High School, one of NYC's top tier schools. The rest failed to pass the entrance exam. In a city with 70 percent of its student body being black and Latino, only a little over 10 percent of the kids admitted to the eight different special…