Chicago Parent

CPS Selective Enrollment Test: What You Need to Know

As a Chicago middle school parent looking ahead to high school for your child, you face decisions about your options. At the center is the CPS selective enrollment test, a high school entrance exam ...
Chicago Sun-Times

CPS shortens high school admissions test but pauses plan that would have diversified selective schools

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WHYY

Philadelphia won’t use test scores for admissions to selective schools for 2022-23

This article originally appeared on Chalkbeat Philadelphia. Philadelphia will not use standardized testing to determine admissions to selective middle and high schools for the 2022-23 year and is ...
The Washington Post

D.C. considers canceling admission test at School Without Walls, an elite public high school, during pandemic

The District’s public school system is considering eliminating the admission test at the city’s most selective high school, School Without Walls, over fears that the test cannot be administered safely ...
Star Tribune

Minnesota's selective colleges see surge in applications after waiving standardized test requirements

Kalid Ali always dreamed of getting a degree from Macalester College in St. Paul, but an average ACT score had sunk his hopes of getting into the selective institution. Then the COVID-19 pandemic took ...