The Supreme Court declined to order that New York City admit a student to a selective high school while his mother sues over its admissions policy, which she says discriminates against Asian Americans.
Brooklyn parent Yi Fang Chen had asked the high court to seat her son at Stuyvesant High School pending a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Sept. 28 denied the emergency application in Chen v. Mamdani. She did not explain her ruling.
Chen’s case takes aim at how the city allocates seats at its exam schools, which reserve a portion of seats for high-scoring students from certain economically disadvantaged schools instead of by neighborhood of residence. Students with the highest scores from the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test are seated first….