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Nothing, except maybe college admissions, seems to get New York parents panties into a twist like the city's specialized high schools. Parent have, since the inception of "the Test," been complaining about how unfair it is that admission into the city's math and science schools is decided completely by a test that is taken only once in eighth grade. They complain that at the Boston Latin School admissions takes grades into account and that at the Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia, a sibling school to Stuy, they not only use test scores but also grades, essays and teacher recommendations.

Leave it to the most prestigious public high school in the country, Stuyvesant High School on Chambers Street, to be mired in a fund-raising snit. The factions: A fund run started by former principal Jinx Cozzi Perullo, "Campaign for Stuyvesant," and the other, "The Case for Stuyvesant," is run by parent (and professional fundraiser) Gabrielle Schang and alum Han-Tsien Tuan.