Hard Truths at John Jay High School
by Brad Lander
The NYC Department of Education has proposed changes at the John Jay High School campus: (a) to bring in a new, fourth school – Millennium Brooklyn, a selective high school, with priority given to students who reside in Brooklyn, as well as an ASD/Nest program; and (b) to truncate the middle-schools of the Secondary Schools of Law and Journalism.
The proposed changes raise a series of challenging issues. I have heard from many students, parents, and educators in the Secondary Schools of Law, Journalism, and Research (on the John Jay campus) who are angry about the proposals, and about deeper educational inequalities. I believe it is important to be honest about the hard truths that the situation at John Jay highlights. These schools predominantly serve African-American and
