From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is a daily.

You're just going to kind of put a number on me and that's going to determine my future.

I don't think of serving every student as well as it needs to.

In recent months, we've seen a meaningful re-examination of this country's education system

and the tests that often sit at the heart of admissions to the nation's top schools.

We have these very elite public schools that kids test into in this city.

In the wake of George Floyd's murder, hard questions have been asked about who these admissions systems benefit.

And last year, even though the public school system is made up 70% of black and Hispanic children, only 10 black students got into stivocin.

And who they leave out.

The numbers by and large have not changed in recent years at the competitive high schools, which remain highly racially segregated or against the state of the nation.

And the state of the state of the state is not segregated or against to be specific, excluding black and Latino students.

And after decades of resistance.

Well, the SAT has been a target of equity-minded reformers for a long time.

Real changes are being made.

The SAT, the ACT standardized tests are out at UC.

Harvard announced it will not require ACT or SAT scores for admission for the next four years.

And elite public high schools around the country that use so-called merit-based admission systems.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology has been rated the number one public high school in America.

It has shifted its standards after accusations they were exclusionary to some minorities.

Have finally begun to bend to pressure to replace those systems.

Boston this week, they also unanimously, their school committee, voted to change their entrance exam.

It was interesting because they taught us.

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