Top NY Court Tosses Bias Challenge to City’s Gifted Schools (1)

New York’s highest court threw out a lawsuit alleging broad discrimination against Black and Latino students in admissions to New York City’s most elite public schools.

The Court of Appeals in Albany ruled Thursday that the suing students failed to show they had been denied a “sound basic education.” A five-judge majority also said the plaintiffs failed to adequately allege discriminatory intent behind admissions policies for the City’s gifted-and-talented schools they claimed favored White and Asian students.

The decision, which overturns a lower appellate court’s ruling, comes as the gifted-and-talented program has become a major issue in the New ...