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<p>It’s not only in your area, it also happened in NYC as illustrated by CCNY/CUNY’s implementation of open admission after 1969* and Mayor Lindsay’s attempts to effectively eliminate public magnet high schools like the one I attended until a loud outcry from alums, parents, and state legislators prompted the passage of the Hecht-Calandra Act in the early '70s which thankfully stopped such efforts cold. </p>
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<li>Open admission was reduced by the '80s and eventually eliminated by the late '90s when all remedial instruction was delegated to the system’s 2-year community colleges. This prompts some local educational activists to brand the requirement for a semblance of academic standards to be “too elitist”.</li>
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