Readers Ask: At Segregated Brooklyn School, Is It Race or Class?
Emily Berl for The New York TimesThird grade students in the library at Explore Charter School in Flatbush, Brooklyn.This week marks the 58th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the court case that struck down state-sponsored school segregation in the United States. But after six decades, a look at New York City public schools shows a system still divided by race.
An article in the Metropolitan section of The New York Times on Sunday, “Why Don’t We Have Any White Kids?,” by N.R. Kleinfield, looks at the issue through one school, Explore Charter School in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
More than 98 percent of the students there are black or Hispanic, and in poignant interviews many students described what it was like to
