This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Derek Sandoval seemed like a good candidate for Discovery, a program created to boost the numbers of disadvantaged kids in New York City’s elite public high schools. Derek and his parents arrived from Venezuela in the summer of 2022 with little English […]

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