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getting to know you

New York
October 10, 2018

Next in the Upper West Side and Harlem integration push: encouraging parents to explore their options

Standing before a classroom of parents crammed into child-sized chairs, Principal Claudia Aguirre launched into her pitch for P.S. 149 Sojourner Truth, a…

First Person

New York
August 28, 2018

As an advocate, I want District 15’s school integration plan to move forward. As a dad, I want it no less.

It's justified as a means of rewarding elementary-schoolers’ “work.” But the system just favors the privileged, and I don’t want my white son to think that's normal.
New York
August 15, 2018

Carranza aims to speed up anti-bias training for educators, calling it a ‘cornerstone’ of school improvement

The chancellor's goal is to compress the original four-year roll out of the anti-bias training to two.

talking SHSAT

New York
August 13, 2018

Fair and objective or useless and biased? A Chalkbeat guide to the case for and against New York City’s specialized high school test

When Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a plan to scrap the exam that serves as the sole entrance criteria for New York City’s…

Gifted gap

New York
July 17, 2018

To integrate specialized high schools, are gifted programs part of the problem or the solution?

As debate has erupted in recent weeks over Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposal to overhaul admissions to the city’s most prestigious specialized…

Chalkbeat explains

National
July 9, 2018

How school desegregation efforts could change, or not, after DeVos’s move to scrap Obama-era guidance on race

The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw guidance dealing with race in school admissions last week wasn’t just about…

stump speech

New York
June 22, 2018

New York City schools Chancellor Richard Carranza on segregation, national politics, and being Mexican-American

In his two months on the job, Chancellor Richard Carranza has left little room to doubt how he thinks and feels about…

Student Sentiments

New York
June 6, 2018

The scene at Stuyvesant: Students who’ve succeeded at SHSAT wary of new plan, though some want change

As politicians and parents take sides over a new plan to scrap the specialized high school test, students at the center of the controversy wrestle with the issue.

Take the test

New York
June 4, 2018

Everybody is talking about the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test. Here’s what it looks like

The test stands at the center of a contentious debate that blew open last weekend over the stark underrepresentation of black and Hispanic students there.

sorting the students

New York
June 2, 2018

Mayor Bill de Blasio: Our specialized schools have a diversity problem. Let’s fix it.

We are living with monumental injustice, de Blasio writes.

Compare and Contrast

New York
May 24, 2018

Comparing the Upper West Side and Harlem integration plans: Here’s how schools, admissions offers could change

Following an uproar over a plan to integrate Manhattan’s District 3, the Department of Education introduced three more proposals to change the makeup…

making plans

New York
May 17, 2018

Controversial integration plan for Upper West Side middle schools changes, but it’s unclear whether more parents will get on board

“Here’s the problem: Maybe instead of there being four desirable middle schools, there should be fifteen."

petition watch

New York
May 3, 2018

Watching the Manhattan desegregation debate unfold, a Brooklyn mom amasses support for bigger changes

With her petition against screened middle schools, Kelly Bare said she wanted "to put out an antidote to some of the ugliness that’s out there."

First Person

New York
May 1, 2018

I taught at a nonselective New York City school. Your assumptions about low-scoring students are wrong.

What is it that children of wealthy parents have earned that kids who score a level 2 on the state exam with no extra help have not?

spotlight

New York
April 30, 2018

Meet the NYC principal in the spotlight for defending desegregation against angry parents

Zymeck has spent his 26-year teaching career entirely at the Computer School, becoming an educator later in life after working on Wall Street and as a legal assistant.
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