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Social Explorer Map in NY Times Article on School Segregation

TUESDAY, JUN 14, 2016

nyt_logo_sq600In the article "Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City," New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones details her local school zone controversy and the complicated history of segregated schools in America. Decades after Brown vs. Board of Education declared that "separate but equal" was illegal, kids and parents still contend with tensions around who is welcome at which school.

The story features a map based on data from Social Explorer showing the stark differences in incomes between the different school zones.

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Hannah-Jones writes of the city system:

In a city where white children are only 15 percent of the more than one million public-school students, half of them are clustered in just 11 percent of the schools, which not coincidentally include many of the city’s top performers. Part of what makes those schools desirable to white parents, aside from the academics, is that they have some students of color, but not too many. This carefully curated integration, the kind that allows many white parents to boast that their children’s public schools look like the United Nations, comes at a steep cost for the rest of the city’s black and Latino children.

The New York City public-school system is 41 percent Latino, 27 percent black and 16 percent Asian. Three-quarters of all students are low-income. In 2014, the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles, released a report showing that New York City public schools are among the most segregated in the country. Black and Latino children here have become increasingly isolated, with 85 percent of black students and 75 percent of Latino students attending “intensely” segregated schools — schools that are less than 10 percent white.

Read the full article here.

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