The sponsor of de Blasio’s controversial SHSAT bill is backing a new strategy
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The state lawmaker who sponsored the bill backing Mayor Bill de Blasio’s controversial specialized high school plan is changing his strategy for diversifying the elite schools.
Assemblyman Charles Barron, whose bill failed in Albany last session, told Chalkbeat he and other lawmakers will abandon their push to amend the section of education law requiring the Specialized High School Admissions Test and will try instead to repeal it — taking the state out of the city’s school admissions rules altogether.