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Holding city to higher standards
Queens senators seek to boost diversity at specialized public high schools
BY JENNA BAGCAL
Two of Queens’ voices in
the state Senate are leading
the way toward finding
a more open dialogue toward
increasing diversity in
New York City’s specialized
high schools.
Last week, a group of lawmakers,
including state Senators
John Liu, the chairperson
of the Senate’s NYC Education
Committee, Jessica Ramos,
Velmanette Montgomery, Kevin
Parker announced their intent
to conduct broad outreach
for improved school diversity
and admissions process to the
city’s specialized high schools.
The purpose of outreach will
be to identify problems and
formulating plans to address
the issues.
The New York City Department
of Education (DOE)
recently released the racial
breakdown of students admitted
to the eight specialized
high schools for the 2019-2020
school year. The data showed
that the schools are admitting
fewer black and Latino students
every year.
According to the DOE report,
only 506 black and Latino students
out of 4,798 were admitted
to specialized high schools.
That number translates to 10.5
percent of admissions among
black and Latino students and
is down from 527 admitted students
last year. Out of 1,135,334
public school students in the
city, 40.5 percent are Latino
and 26 percent are black.
By comparison, about 51
percent of the seats went to
Asian students while 28.5 percent
went to white students
this year.
DELIVERING FOR CHARITY
St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital paid special tribute to the team at Celtic Gasthaus, an Irish pub
in Glendale, on March 24 for raising more than $42,000 this year, and more than $100,000 over the last
four years. Photo by Dean Moses
Arsonist shot in
fi ery episode at
111th Precinct
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
Two officers shot a man who
allegedly charged at them with a
knife after ramming his vehicle
into a police car outside Bayside’s
111th Precinct on Sunday afternoon,
then tried to set it and his
own automobile on fire.
The suspect — Jarrell Davis,
33, of 224th Street in Queens Village
— was rushed to NewYork-
Presbyterian Queens Hospital after
being hit several times in the
torso and leg, NYPD Chief of Patrol
Rodney Harrison said during
a March 24 press conference at
the scene. Davis was later booked
on numerous criminal charges.
Harrison said the trouble began
at 3 p.m. on March 24 outside
the 111th Precinct stationhouse
located at the corner of Northern
Boulevard and 215th Street.
Based on a preliminary investigation,
police learned that
Davis allegedly rammed his own
vehicle into an unmarked NYPD
patrol car. He then exited from
his own car and began spraying
an accelerant onto both vehicles
Spectrum settlement
offers customer credits BY MARK HALLUM
BY BILL PARRY
Spectrum has begun issuing credits to New
York customers as required in a $62.5 million
settlement announced by New York State Attorney
General Letitia James last week.
Pol: Keep quiet at Highland Park!
Councilman Robert
Holden is calling on the
NYPD to rein in excessive
music and motorized
recreation vehicles in
and around southwestern
Queens green spaces after
posting videos of activity
he says is taking over the
area.Videos posted to Holden’s
Facebook page show
large groups of bicyclists
at Highland Park, on the
Brooklyn/Queens border
near Glendale, taking up
entire lanes for vehicular
traffic, music that can
be heard from a distance
and the sound of motorbikes
or ATVs that some
have said drive erratically
and dangerously.
The exterior of Ridgewood Reservoir. “The parking lot by
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