clipped from gothamist.com Fewer Black Students Attend City's Top Public Schools The percentage of black students at New York City's best high schools has fallen over the past seven years, since the Mayor took control of public schools. Fewer black students attend seven of the eight public high schools that require entrance exams for admittance, while the number of African American students has stayed the same or fallen at 10 of the 12 schools where more than 90 percent of students graduate with Regents diplomas. The Daily News reports that the percentage of black students at Brooklyn Technical High School fell from 18 percent in 2002 to 12 percent this year, and plummeted from 30 percent to 16 percent at Bard.