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Good morning! Alex here with Chalkbeat New York.

New York City’s high school admissions process is notoriously complex and often favors families with time and resources. A new report this week proposes some ideas for making it fairer. Among them: better equipping middle school students with the information they need to navigate hundreds of school options and cutting back on the number of programs that can operate within a single school. Read more in today’s top story.

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How to make NYC’s high school process fairer? Add support and simplify, advocates argue.

Authors from New York Appleseed and Fordham Law School urged city officials to streamline the complicated process, and add support for marginalized students.

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