{"id":308239,"date":"2026-07-29T01:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/308239\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T01:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:12:09","slug":"councilman-makes-case-for-specialized-high-school-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/308239\/","title":{"rendered":"Councilman makes case for specialized high school exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said more must be done to address the racial disparities in the city\u2019s specialized high school admissions.<\/p>\n<p>It came after new data from the city\u2019s Department of Education showed only three Black students received offers to Stuyvesant High School\u2019s incoming freshman class.<\/p>\n<p>Summer registration for the specialized high school admission test is open through the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Bronx Council Member Justin Sanchez joined NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on \u201cInside City Hall\u201d Monday to discuss more.<\/p>\n<p>His district spans neighborhoods in the South Bronx, including all or parts of Mott Haven, Melrose, Morrisania, Longwood and Hunts Point.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez is also the chair of the Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this month, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said more must be done to address the racial disparities in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[378,25,128,377,379,9,24,12,63,380,129,131,130,27,200],"class_list":["post-308239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-inside-city-hall","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bronx","tag-inside-city-hall-segments","tag-inside-city-hall-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}