A group of Boston parents has filed a lawsuit against the school committee and Superintendent Brenda Cassellius for what they call a “wholly-irrational” exam school admissions process, which had recently undergone changes due to the pandemic.
“As a parent, I want to request that my child receive a fair and equitable opportunity to apply for these three exam schools,” said Bentao Cui, president of Boston Parent Coalition for Academic Excellence, a new organization pushing for a merit-based entrance to Boston’s exam schools.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 14 BPCAE families in U.S. District Court in Boston on Friday.
In October, school committee members voted to suspend for one year the use of an admissions test for Boston’s three elite schools Boston Latin School, Boston Latin Academy and the John D. O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science.