Admissions Policy for N.Y.C. Magnet Schools Lauded

By Peter Schmidt

The New York City school system's magnet-schools admissions procedure appears to offer students a choice of schools without leading to increased segregation by race or class, a new study asserts.

The evidence from a study of New York's magnet schools for secondary students "seems to indicate that it is possible to construct a public high-school choice system that eliminates some of the worst excesses of an unfettered choice plan,'' the study says.

The federally funded National Center for Research in Vocational Education at the University of California at Berkeley conducted the study, which is expected to...