New York City Parents Union Statement On City Schools Being The Most Segregated In The Country: “We Must End Education Apartheid In New York City”
Yesterday, the Civil Rights Project at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) released areport proving what parents already know, that “education apartheid” is alive and well in New York City.
The report concludes that City schools are the most segregated public schools in the United States, with many Black and Latino students attending schools with virtually no white classmates. Surprised? We are not. We’ve known it.
Professor Gary Orfield, co-director of UCLA’s Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles and a faculty member at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education, stated the following:
“The children who most depend on the public schools for any chance in life are concentrated in schools struggling with all the dimensions of family and neighborhood poverty and isolation”. Surprised? We are not. We’ve experienced it.
The report also states that segregation in City schools is largely due to housing patterns, because housing and school segregation are correlated. Surprised? We are not. We’ve lived it.
Not only are our City’s schools segregated, but the quality of education received by students in schools located in communities of color is poor compared to what White students receive in