Time runs out on de Blasio’s elite-HS reform

Mayor de Blasio’s controversial plan to eliminate admissions tests for the city’s elite high schools is officially on hold in Albany,

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) said Thursday a bill that de Blasio needs enacted into law — and which narrowly passed the Education Committee Wednesday — wouldn’t advance before the scheduled June 20 end of the legislative session. The next session is scheduled for 2019.

“After speaking to members of the caucus and also the Asian Pacific Task Force as well, we want to come up with something that is good for all students, so I think over the next few months and into the next session we’ll be having discussions with all of the stakeholders and all of the communities, including the Asian-American community, to come up with something that’s good for all students in the city of New York,” Heastie told re- porters in Albany.

De Blasio wants to scrap the “Specialized High School Admission Test” as part of a proposal to increase the number of black and Hispanic students at the city’s eight elite public high schools, where Asian-American students predominate. Seats in the schools would instead be granted to the top 7 percent of seventh-graders in each middle school.

Asian-American leaders are furi- ous at the proposed shift, saying it discriminates against students in their community who work hard to get into the eight specialized schools.

Gov. Cuomo has yet to take a position on de Blasio’s plan — which has come under fire from Asian-American activists and others — but said Tuesday that it “will be part of the overall discussion” regarding continued mayoral control of the city’s schools, which expires next year.