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NYC nixes plan for AI-themed high school after woke backlash to merit-based admissions policy

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Fews App Post Time 16h ago

The city’s AI school has been terminated. Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels pulled the plug on a Manhattan high school focused on artificial intelligence after backlash from woke activists who claimed its merit-based admissions policy would exacerbate racial inequality. Fierce opposition to the the proposed Next Generation Technology High School included concerns over its focus on AI, but the head of the Panel for Educational Policy said he opposed the school because of its planned “screened” admissions policy.

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