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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When you casually link in your piece to a Manhattan Institute tweet that compares test scores and funding between PS 307 and Community Roots charter while purposefully omitting how vastly different their student populations are, then you are actively misinforming your readers 👎🏻

Demographics for Community Roots charter, a non-Title I school

Student Count
200

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160

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100

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ENROLLMENT BY ETHNICITY
210
AMERICAN INDIAN OR ALASKA
NATIVE
2
0%
BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN
100
21%
HISPANIC OR LATINO
79
17%
79
80
ASIAN OR NATIVE HAWAIIAN/OTHER
PACIFIC ISLANDER
60
55
27
6%
40
27
WHITE
20
2
210
44%
0
American Black HISPANKSIAN OR WHITEULTIRACIAL
Indian or
AfricanOR LATINGTIVE
Alaska NatAmerican
HAWAIIAN/ OTHER PACIFIC
ISLANDER
MULTIRACIAL
55
12%
OTHER GROUPS
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
LEARNERS
STUDENTS WITH
DISABILITIES
ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED
11
2%
159
34%
149
32%
MIGRANT
HOMELESS
FOSTER CARE
PARENT IN ARMED FORCES
10
2%
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Demographics for PS 307, an extremely high-poverty school where nearly 50% of the students have a disability, the majority of whom have an IEP that requires a lower class size

Student Count
ENROLLMENT BY ETHNICITY
111
110
AMERICAN INDIAN OR ALASKA
NATIVE
100
6
90
3%
83
BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN
80
111
48%
70
HISPANIC OR LATINO
60
50
83
36%
40
ASIAN OR NATIVE HAWAIIAN/OTHER
PACIFIC ISLANDER
30
8
3%
20
14
WHITE
10
6
14
6%
American Black HISPANISIAN OR WHITEULTIRACIAL
Indian or AfricanOR LATINGTIVE
Alaska NatAmerican
HAWAIIAN/ OTHER PACIFIC
ISLANDER
MULTIRACIAL
8
3%
OTHER GROUPS
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
LEARNERS
STUDENTS WITH
DISABILITIES
ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED
26
11%
107
47%
207
90%
MIGRANT
HOMELESS
FOSTER CARE
PARENT IN ARMED FORCES
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27%

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Gavin Healy @gavinhealy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

More from the training for the NYC CEC Antidiscrimination and Antiharassment Policy (Reg D210). In 2023 the FACE Dep Chancellor told me D210 was “an unfunded mandate inherited from the previous administration.” This training seems more about limiting DOE liability than protecting students/families.

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Gavin Healy @gavinhealy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This AI slop is from the required training module for the NYC Citywide and Community Education Council Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy (Chancellor’s Regulation D-210). John Davis’s name plaque is facing backwards and both of the women on the left are named “Maria Garcia."

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🧵 Let's talk about the backstory here, which you can also read about in my book. Bergtraum was 1 of 8 new selective citywide career-themed HS opened between 1969-82. 8 new schools doesn't sound like a lot, but at the time, there were 86 HS in NYC & new schs recruited from the whole city. 1/12

the scarcity loop: how school choice reshapes the rationing of public education cover

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Matt Gonzales @matttheg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Check out my recent op-ed on Governor Hochul’s choice: She should reject Trump’s Federal Voucher scheme and protect NY public schools. unwall.app/www.timesuni...

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Commentary: Federal Scholarship Tax Credit is a threat to N.Y. public schools

Gov. Hochul must reject a program that could deepen segregation and leave public schools with fewer resources.

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Robin Broshi @eastsidegadfly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The most depressing outcome from my time as a parent leader advocating for admissions reforms to make middle and high schools more uniformly accessible was watching “nice, liberal” parents team up with rabid racists and transphobes to protect the status quo.

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CNN @cnn.com · 11/09/2026

Antoinette Forbes, a 53-year-old single mother, was last seen Friday, September 4, in Washington DC according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Her family is searching for answers.

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Gavin Healy @gavinhealy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hear me discuss my book, A Guide to Mao’s China: Showing the Nation to Foreign Guests, on the New Books Network podcast with Sarah Bramao-Ramos. newbooksnetwork.com/a-guide-to-m...

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Gavin Healy, "A Guide to Mao’s China: Showing the Nation to Foreign Guests" (Cornell UP, 2026) - New Books Network

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Gavin Healy @gavinhealy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hope your commute is not disrupted by the Thomas the Tank Engine derailment.

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Gavin Healy @gavinhealy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Just received a copy of the latest issue of History Today in the mail from the UK - with my article as the cover story! www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

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Kaliris Salas-Ramírez, PhD @drkysr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

@errollouis.bsky.social and I were able to chat about why we need a moratorium on AI in our schools! It perpetuates racial bias and inhibits learning, not to mention the impact on the planet! It is time for @mayor.nyc.gov to declare a moratorium now! ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

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Neuroscience expert concerned about use of AI in schools

Watch the full interview here.

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The messianic, desperate push by NYCPS employees and “parents’ rights” activists for an OpenAI/Google-controlled public high school didn’t happen by accident Moratoriums aren’t enough, the mayor needs to install much narrower guardrails for dealing with these companies, they aren’t our pals

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Gavin Healy @gavinhealy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My article on the cover of this month’s issue of History Today!

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History Today @historytoday.com · 20/08/2026

The September issue of History Today is on sale today Featuring: #Mao’s #China, a #medieval forgery, #Victorians reading, the #BengalFamine, #CivilWar petitions, and more. Find out what else is inside and order it directly from our store at buff.ly/zt0xDpR

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Gavin Healy @gavinhealy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My article in this month’s issue of @historytoday.com!

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Gavin Healy @gavinhealy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Guess what? You can do both.

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david i. backer @schooldaves.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Oh no socialists want to do cool stuff for NYC public schools! Everybody freak out! (Great PR) nypost.com/2026/07/26/u...

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I’m not sure which is worse, this or his craven post-primary flip-flop on mayoral control It’s hilarious how afraid the “parents’ rights” and “merit” enthusiasts were of this guy—this is exactly the kind of “separate but equal,” status quo-reinforcing stuff that they love

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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 25/07/2026

The SHSAT, a standardized test that governs admissions to specialized high schools, is a wildly unfair method of evaluating students and fuels segregation to boot, Errol Louis writes.

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It’s Time to End the Test That’s Grotesquely Segregating NYC Schools

The SHSAT, a standardized test that governs admissions to specialized high schools, is a wildly unfair method of evaluating students and fuels segregation to boot, Errol Louis writes.

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If you think it can’t happen to you, realize that a couple of people in New York City were wined and dined and fellowed by Google and OpenAI and next thing you know it became a top, almost desperate priority of NYCPS to create an AI HS, planned and run with those firms Let’s be careful out there!

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

A GUIDE TO MAO'S CHINA by Gavin Healy explores how personnel within #China's state tourism bureaucracy during the Mao era struggled to balance inbound foreign tourism with demands for developing a revenue-generating service industry in a socialist economy. Learn more here: ow.ly/GQox50YkK9N

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A Guide to Mao's China explores how personnel within China's state tourism bureaucracy during the Mao era struggled to balance inbound foreign tourism as a form of political, historical, and cultural...

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Someone should probably primary her?

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Gavin Healy @gavinhealy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

What lesson does it send our students when the person spearheading the development of AI policy for the nation’s largest public school system - the Chief Academic Officer of New York City Public Schools - can’t write an ode to human resilience without using AI?

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

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A Guide to Mao's China by Gavin Healy | Paperback | Cornell University Press

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Google GSV -- the same people who brought Gary Biedleman, of the failed AI high school, and Mia Pate, our "AI Integrationist" Chief Academic Officer. "AI is like air. Because it's invisible, it's ubiquitous, and you're going to need it to live." @mayor.nyc.gov why is my tax money paying for this?

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Gavin Healy @gavinhealy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Dan Weisberg spent most of his time as first deputy chancellor of NYC Public Schools trying to block full implementation of a law that would cap class sizes in lower grades at 20-23 students. Now he says we need AI in classrooms because it’s too difficult for teachers to handle 25-30 students. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Gavin Healy @gavinhealy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Just published this on Medium with Johanna Bjorken. Why an AI-themed high school with screened admissions is a bad idea if Mayor Mamdani is serious about school integration: medium.com/@gavinhealy/...

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It’s Time for a Moratorium on New Screened High Schools

(by Johanna Bjorken and Gavin Healy)

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CarolCorbettBurris @carolburris.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Shameful! @governor.ny.gov sides with Trump & w/ private & religious schools that discriminate against LGBTQ kids and kids w/disabilities to curry favor with big donors. @rweingarten.bsky.social @dianeravitch.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Remember: any time you see the Manhattan Institute, the Post, the Atlantic, etc screaming and crying about school spending in New York City (but not the suburbs/rurals that spend more), they are really just saying that kids with disabilities shouldn’t be identified or receive appropriate services

The Untouchable Money Pit
May 7 • 48 min
And those aren't really the same thing.
And at some point, maybe we'll get to the age where we just call, you know, 60 or 70 percent of the kids disabled, and then we'll just put the others in their own class or something like that. I mean, I think there has to be a point at which we hit a number by which we're like, that many kids are probably not disabled.
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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

We should be clear-eyed that the technology NYC is rolling out with wild abandon is telling kids to kill other kids. This is evil. It has no place in our schools.

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Students are at risk of falling massively behind if we don’t allow OpenAI to plan, site, and be involved in the day-to-day operations of an NYCPS high school, an actual thing that an alarmingly large number of actual parents believe

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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

If you're in District 2 in NYC, or have little ones who will be one day, show up next Wednesday - you know what to do! We want a moratorium - no AI in our schools!

A flyer advertising an event on Wednesday May 13 about AI in schools

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Gavin Healy @gavinhealy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I wonder whether any other government ever distributed copies of a Little Red Book before? If so, how did it work out??

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James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

So, if I'm looking at this correctly, the Department of Education used AI to break copyright law (that's a Spongebob character) to suggest that dedicated teachers take their direction from the federal government's little red book. Honestly, this will make a great APUSH DBQ one day.

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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Choosing to speak up about AI? Advocating for Palestinian rights or smaller class sizes? Raising concerns in your school community? The possibility of those moments shapes how people come to see their role in public life and building New York’s future. The buffer zone bills put all of that at risk.

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 28/04/2026

The plan for New York City's first artificial intelligence-themed high school—a selective public school in Lower Manhattan where teens would focus on technology, including AI—has been switched off by the Mamdani administration. hellgatenyc.com/ai-high-scho...

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Humans Have Overcome NYC's AI High School (for Now)

And more news for your Tuesday.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/04/2026

The opening of an A.I.-focused high school in Manhattan for next school year was put on hold after families in New York City expressed concerns about the rapid adoption of the technology.

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A. I. High School Is Put on Hold After Parental Backlash

Families in New York City expressed concerns about the rapid adoption of the technology. The schools chancellor also canceled a plan to close two Upper West Side schools.

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

For the weekday crowd ICYMI: Two desperate and cynical parties have found each other: a parent mad that her kid couldn’t get into Stuy, and a right-wing activist group seeking to re-segregate the nation’s public schools

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Jose Vilson, PhD @thejosevilson.com · 27/04/2026

This morning, New York City's chancellor withdrew a proposal for an AI-driven high school ahead of our PEP (read: school board) meeting. Ed-tech shouldn't be driving the conversation about education or technology. Students, educators, and communities should. GenAI is not inevitable.

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Gavin Healy @gavinhealy.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

In physical form at last! Use code 09BCARD for a 30% discount: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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Tim “Positive Subway” Smith @positivesubway.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

A new level of depravity in HS admissions unlocked A PLACE NYC parent has filed a lawsuit seeking to effectively kill the Discovery Program pathway to the specialized high schools because her son missed the SHSAT cut-off for Stuyvesant and has to attend a different SHS I’m not making this up 1/?

PRAYER FOR RELIEF
WHEREFORE, Plaintiff respectfully requests the following relief:
1. An entry of judgment declaring that Defendants' expansion and reorganization of the
Discovery program for admission to New York City's specialized high schools
violates the Equal Protection Clause and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
2. Entry of a preliminary and permanent injunction against Defendants prohibiting them
from continuing to enforce the changes to the Discovery program.
Case 1:26-cv-03355 Document 1 Filed 04/23/26
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3. Entry of a preliminary and permanent injunction against Defendants requiring that
Plaintiff's child M.P. be admitted to Stuyvesant High School starting in the 2026-27
school year.
4. Nominal damages in the amount of $1.00.
5. An award of attorneys' fees and costs in this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988.
6. An award of any further legal or equitable relief this Court may deem just and proper.
DATED: April 23, 2026.

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