controlled choice

Choosing integration

New York

November 29, 2017

In a district aiming for integration, can New York City sway parents’ school choices?

New York City officials are hoping that an unused corner of a Lower East Side elementary school will help achieve what has long eluded this…

integration lessons

New York

October 14, 2016

Study finds explosion in the number of school districts working on integration

“New York has made an important and good start in this effort.”

Achieving Diversity

New York

October 5, 2016

Five New York City school districts putting integration on the map

As the school year ramps up, so do plans to integrate New York City classrooms.

hello from the other side

New York

July 21, 2016

Advocates seize chance to push for Upper West Side desegregation, but face stiff resistance

As a zoning debate highlights the divides among Upper West Side schools, advocates are pushing for district-wide desegregation.

'small steps'

New York

July 6, 2016

Under pressure from advocates, city inches toward district-wide integration plan

Top officials are considering a plan to better integrate schools in Manhattan's District 1. Advocates say that's a sign of progress, yet some want the city to go further.

Diversity & Equity

New York

June 16, 2016

Latest Upper West Side rezoning battle renews debate over how best to integrate schools

This week marked the second time in less than a year that parents on the sharply segregated Upper West Side gathered in droves to protest…

district debut

New York

March 30, 2016

Lower East Side families get first look at a sweeping plan to integrate schools

If approved, the plan would mark the first district-wide effort by the de Blasio administration to combat New York City's entrenched school segregation.

sorting the students

New York

Updated March 1, 2016

On the Upper West Side, a radical plan to desegregate schools faces an uphill climb

Advocates want to abolish the school zones in Manhattan's District 3 in a bid to boost diversity, but some parent leaders are skeptical.

sorting the students

New York

February 24, 2016

Fariña to parents: We need ‘organic’ plans, not mandates, to diversify schools

Fariña was not asked to address the specifics of any proposals to change enrollment policy in District 1. But her comments were still a welcome change to some.

to do list

New York

February 10, 2016

Searching for answers to segregation, Fariña enlists top deputy and solicits local ideas

In an exclusive interview, Chancellor Carmen Fariña explained that she's open to policy changes to promote diversity, but also searching for community-created plans.

New York

December 23, 2015

School segregation debates grabbed New York headlines in 2015. Now what?

Four questions facing New York City and those pushing to better integrate its schools in 2016.

the big picture

New York

October 7, 2015

Will John King’s last effort to desegregate New York’s schools work?

For the first time, a grant program will allow the city to try to improve a handful of schools by convincing more affluent families to send their children there.

New York

November 25, 2014

How de Blasio is perpetuating Bloomberg’s myth of the failing school

Education professor David Bloomfield: In his renewal plan for struggling schools, Mayor de Blasio has mistakenly fallen for a myth usually promoted by his conservative adversaries: that failure is the fault of individual schools, not the school system.

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