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Letitia James urges city to do more to desegregate schools: ‘A child’s zip
code still determines far too much about their future’
Letitia James urges city to do more to desegregate schools
BY Erin Durkin
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 2:28 PM
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Public Advocate Letitia James wants the city education department to
appoint a chief diversity officer to overhaul its highly segregated
schools.
Public Advocate Letitia James wants the city education department to appoint
a chief diversity officer to overhaul its highly segregated schools.
(Alec Tabak/for New York Daily News)
BY Erin Durkin
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, November 2, 2016, 2:28 PM
The city education department should appoint a chief diversity officer
to overhaul its highly segregated schools, Public Advocate Letitia
James said.
“In 2016, our public school system is still far too segregated and far
too unequal, and a child’s zip code still determines far too much about
their future,” James said at a press conference Wednesday.
New York schools are among the most segregated in the nation, James
said. Some 96% of black students and 95% of Hispanic students attend
schools that are majority low-income.
James said new diversity officers should spearhead an effort to
increase integration citywide. Students who attend diverse schools are
less likely to drop out and more likely to go to college, she said.
City finds black, Hispanic public school kids have most hardships
According to a Citizens Committee for Children analysis, 71% of schools
are intensely segregated, meaning 90-100% of the student body is
students of color, while only 23% have at least three racial groups
making up 10% or more of the student body.
The city has moved to integrate schools in certain neighborhoods
through rezoning plans — and met fierce resistance from parents in
areas like the upper West Side and Dumbo.
James, who declined to take a position on the zoning fight currently
raging on the upper West Side, said a plan spanning the whole system
would be more effective.
“We cannot have a patchwork, piecemeal approach to desegregating our
schools,” she said.
New York City school suspensions, arrests continue to drop
Ernie Logan, president of the Council of School Supervisors and
Administrators, which represents principals, backed up the call.
“Parents see themselves as targets when all of a sudden they are asked
to desegregate, and you’re saying, ‘Well what about the rest of the
city?’” he said.
The DOE shot down the idea of a new officer, while saying they agree on
the need for more integration.
“We agree that students learn better in diverse classrooms and we are
eager to continue working with Public Advocate James on these important
efforts. However, at the DOE, the buck stops with the Chancellor and
she’s asked her senior leadership team to work on these important
efforts,” said spokeswoman Devora Kaye.
“These efforts extend far beyond one individual or division and a more
simplistic approach would discredit the importance of the effort, the
complexity of the issue and the need for collaboration both internally
and externally. We look forward to sharing our larger plan later this
school year.”
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