索尼娅·索托马约尔大法官驳回了布鲁克林一名母亲提出的紧急申请，拒绝让其亚裔美国儿子入读纽约市一所精英高中。该母亲指称，纽约市一项旨在招收经济困难社区学生的项目对亚裔学生存在歧视。
Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied a Brooklyn mother's emergency bid to enroll her Asian American son at an elite New York City high school, alleging that a city program geared toward admitting students from economically challenged neighborhood into the school discriminates against Asian students.
这起诉讼的核心是伊方·陈提出的指控。她的儿子未能被史岱文森高中录取，而陈称，纽约市修订后的录取标准蓄意歧视亚裔学生，同时提高黑人和西班牙裔学生的录取比例。陈于4月提起诉讼，指控纽约市违反《美国宪法》第十四修正案中的平等保护条款以及《民权法》第六条。
The lawsuit centers on allegations by Yi Fang Chen, whose son was denied admission to Stuyvesant High School, that New York City’s revised admissions requirements intentionally discriminate against Asian students while increasing enrollment among Black and Hispanic students. Chen filed the lawsuit in April, accusing the city of violating the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
“迟到的正义总令人沮丧，但我们仍相信，法院最终会维护平等保护的核心原则，确保任何学生，包括我们当事人的儿子，都不会因其种族而被认为不如他人有资格获得教育机会。”代表原告、任职于太平洋法律基金会的律师迪恩·麦基告诉福克斯新闻数字网。
"Delayed justice is always frustrating, but we remain confident that the courts will ultimately uphold core equal protection principles and ensure that no student, including our client’s son, is treated as less deserving of educational opportunities because of their race," Dean McGee, an attorney for the plaintiff with Pacific Legal Foundation, told Fox News Digital.
杜克法学院所谓基于种族的招生政策被指违抗最高法院裁决：司法部索托马约尔周一没有就驳回紧急申请作出解释。该申请源于一宗目前正在美国第二巡回上诉法院待审的诉讼。
DUKE LAW'S ALLEGED RACE-BASED ADMISSIONS ACCUSED OF DEFYING SUPREME COURT RULING: DOJ Sotomayor did not offer an explanation Monday for denying the emergency bid, which stems from a lawsuit pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
陈的儿子在法院文件中被称为M.P.，他在专业高中入学考试中得了558分，而这是录取的必要条件。他距离该学年的录取门槛仅差3分，但诉状称，如果纽约市没有提高录取分数线，M.P.本就会被录取。据称，这一变化是因为纽约市将20%的招生名额保留给被认定为“经济弱势”的学生。这是市长比尔·德布亚索于2018年扩大“探索计划”的一部分。
Chen's son, identified as M.P. in court documents, scored a 558 on the Specialized High School Admissions Test — a requirement for admission. He was just three points shy of being admitted for the school year, but the lawsuit argues that M.P. would have been admitted if the city had not raised the cutoff score, a change attributed to the city reserving 20% of its admissions for students deemed "economically disadvantaged." The change was part of Mayor Bill de Blasio's expansion of the Discovery program in 2018.
伯克利大学数学教授就自由派“无视考试”的政策敲响警钟，警告许多学生已严重落后。该项目仅限就读于经济弱势学生占比至少达到60%的中学的学生参加，这意味着，如果所在中学低于这一门槛，一些经济弱势学生也可能被排除在项目之外。
BERKELEY MATH PROFESSOR SOUNDS ALARM ON LIBERAL 'TEST-BLIND' POLICIES, WARNS MANY STUDENTS BADLY BEHIND The program was limited to students who attended middle schools where at least 60% of students were considered economically disadvantaged, meaning some economically disadvantaged students could be excluded from the program if their school fell below the threshold.
今年通过“探索项目”录取的学生中，没有一人的分数高于495分——这一分数至少比仅依据高中入学考试（SHSAT）成绩、不考虑经济弱势状况录取学生的分数线低66分。
No student admitted through the Discovery program this year scored higher than 495 — at least 66 points below the cutoff for students admitted based solely on the SHSAT without economic disadvantage considered.
纽约市近四分之三的亚裔美国学生来自低收入家庭，但许多人就读的中学并未达到经济需求指数60%的门槛。
Although nearly three-quarters of Asian American students in New York City come from low-income families, many attended middle schools that did not meet the 60% Economic Need Index threshold.
。这场诉讼援引了纽约市教育局和市长办公室的内部通信。陈的律师称，这些通信显示，该项目旨在增加黑人和拉丁裔学生的入学人数，代价则是牺牲亚裔学生的利益。
SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER The lawsuit points to internal communications from the New York City Department of Education and the Mayor's Office that Chen's attorneys allege show the program's intent was to increase enrollment of Black and Hispanic students at the expense of Asian students.
太平洋法律基金会律师迪恩·麦基在一份声明中表示：“Yi Fang Chen的儿子之所以未能被史岱文森高中录取，是因为市政府把一个旨在帮助经济弱势学生的项目，变成了操控种族构成的工具——而这个项目实际上将全市的弱势儿童排除在外。”“平等保护意味着把孩子当作独立个体，而不是人口统计数据。”
"Yi Fang Chen’s son was denied a seat at Stuyvesant because the City turned a program meant to help economically disadvantaged students into a tool for racial engineering—one that actually excluded disadvantaged children throughout the city," Dean McGee, an attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation, said in a statement. "Equal protection means treating kids as individuals, not as demographic statistics."