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When the Doors to A Dual Language School Don't Feel Open to Everyone
Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña is a big fan of dual-language and bilingual programs. In April, she announced 38 more of these programs will open in the 2016-17 school year. It is one of the tenets...
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School Integration 2.0: How Could New York City Do It Better?
We’ve been talking all week about New York City's segregated schools — in fact, all school year. And we're not the only ones. A host of other media outlets, educators, parents, City Council members,...
View ArticleOpinion: Choosing a School When Race is the Main Concern
When I sat down with Nikole Hannah-Jones, a staff writer at the New York Times magazine, to talk about segregation in New York City schools, I thought we would have a casual, candid conversation as two...
View ArticleWhat To Do About New York City Schools: Teens Weigh In
Students in the group IntegrateNYC4Mehave spent more than a year exploring segregation and possible solutions. Launched by teacher Sarah Camiscoli and students at the Urban Assembly Bronx Academy of...
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How One Brooklyn Charter School Integrates With Intention
Efforts to desegregate public schools are gathering steam across the country, prodded by both grassroots pressure and the federal government. U.S. Education Secretary John King said recently that...
View ArticleBeing Culturally Responsive in Classrooms
As part of the WNYC series "Integration 2.0," Christopher Emdin, associate professor at Columbia University's Teachers College, creator of the #HipHopEd Twitter movement and Science Genius...
View ArticleWhat New Yorkers Recall About School Integration Efforts of Earlier Era
In the heyday of the civil rights movement in New York City, top education officials tried to do something about school segregation, acknowledging the separate and unequal education offered students...
View ArticleWhat Eric Holder Learned From Attending Segregated Schools
As part of our series on school integration this week, we're learning about a 1964 plan that paired two schools in Queens: P.S. 127 in East Elmhurst and P.S. 148 in Jackson Heights.An alumnus of both...
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How Downtown Manhattan Wants to Create More Integrated Schools
Click the player above to hear our story about a renewed effort to better integrate schools in one part of Manhattan. Click here to see how new admissions rules could change where students in District...
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'Controlled Choice' for Integrating Schools: What It's All About
Some parents in New York City's School District 1 have proposed a system known as controlled choice in order to better integrate its schools. The school district includes the East Village, part of...
View ArticleDesegregation Proposal Depends on Parents' Choices
The website for the East Village Community School describes a multicultural curriculum that helps children "appreciate diversity" and develop an understanding of racism.Yet, a proposal to set aside...
View ArticleYoung Students Call for More School Diversity
Eight-year-old Njideka Kene said she likes being in third grade at the East Village Community School. "Not to brag, but it has a lot of fun things," she said, describing its art, dance and music...
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Demand for School Integration Leads to Massive 1964 Boycott — In New York City
After hearing too many "vague promises" from the New York City Board of Education to integrate the schools, civil rights activists in 1964 called for swift action: desegregate the city's schools and...
View ArticleNew Steps Toward School Integration in Brooklyn
Two schools we've been following in DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights will be re-zoned to relieve overcrowding, which will (inadvertently) integrate one school.The CEC has voted to rezone PS 8 and PS 307 in...
View ArticleChange of Zone Lines Marks a New Era for Two Brooklyn Schools
Nearly four months after the city held its first contentious town hall meetings on the issue, a plan to redraw the school zones for P.S. 8 Robert Fulton in Brooklyn Heights and P.S. 307 Daniel Hale...
View ArticleParent Council Readies for Vote on Brooklyn School Rezoning
The proposal to rezone two Brooklyn elementary schools comes up for a vote Tuesday, after the city took the unusual step earlier this fall to delay a vote and spend more time talking to people in...
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In Rezoning Proposal, A 'Good' School Is in the Eye of the Beholder
For the first time since the school opened in 1965, P.S. 307 Daniel Hale Williams in Brooklyn could have a school zone that reaches beyond the children of Farragut Houses, the public housing complex...
View ArticleSchool Segregation Debate Hits Home in Bronx High School
It’s hard to say the Urban Assembly Bronx Academy of Letters isn’t diverse. Almost all of its approximately 600 students are black and Hispanic, including many from different countries. But there’s one...
View ArticlePower Lines: Changing a Culture of Segregation in New York Schools
New York has the most segregated schools in the country. And New York City is home to the largest and one of the most segregated public school systems in the nation – read that again: IN THE NATION. A...
View ArticleOpinion: Tackle Segregation in New York City Schools With District-Wide Plans
The Department of Education recently approved changes in the admissions policies of seven elementary schools to promote more diverse student bodies. While we appreciate that the principals wanted to...
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