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data point

New York
April 15, 2019

These numbers show how much New York City middle schools might change with two new integration plans in place

Each school has a different story to tell, with some poised to shift their incoming sixth grade classes dramatically and others more likely to remain mostly the same.

Asking the candidates

New York
February 20, 2019

2 questions for 17 candidates: The education voter’s guide to New York City’s 2019 public advocate race

We asked each candidate two questions: What do you think is the biggest education issue facing the city, and what out-of-school factors that impact classrooms would you address?

let's review

New York
December 21, 2018

What happened in New York City education this year — and what to expect in 2019

Here’s our look back at the headline-grabbing moments of 2018 — and what parents, students, and educators should watch out for in the new year.

long division

National
November 29, 2018

It took this Texas school district 48 years to desegregate. Now, some fear a return to the past.

Students of color in Longview still don’t have the same opportunities as white students. Its desegregation order was dismissed. Can the district succeed without it?

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…
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