New York Appleseed’s executive director, Nyah Berg, testified at the City Council Committee on Education’s hearing on the DOE’s recent changes in the admissions processes, which has slightly improved the notoriously stressful and complex process, but still is not meeting
New York Appleseed’s executive director testifies at City Council oversight hearing on school bus transportation services
On November 21st, New York Appleseed’s executive director, Nyah Berg, testified before the NYC Council Committee on Education and Committee on Oversight and Investigations concerning school bus transportation in NYC schools. In her statement, which can be read in full
School segregation is still NYC’s problem to fix
Appleseed’s executive director, Nyah Berg, and Matt Gonzales, the director of the Education Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative (EJROC), write that NYC still hasn’t fixed the problem of school segregation in their recent op-ed. Over the past decade, NYC has
Appleseed sends letter demanding that DOE permanently end middle school screens
NY Appleseed sent a letter to NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks, signed by over 400 hundred students, parents, educators and community members and more than 40 organizations that represent constituents throughout the city, to permanently end the use of screens,
Op-ed Fighting Back the Scarcity Mindset in Admissions
Appleseed’s Executive Director, Nyah Berg, wrote an op-ed with HSAAC members, Chantal Hailey (University of Texas at Austin) and Karuna Patel (Fordham Law School’s Feerick Center for Social Justice), “A scarcity mindset prohibits progress in NYC high school admissions,” published
Recommendations to Support Under-Resourced and Historically Marginalized Students and Families in NYC’s Middle and High School Admissions Process
New York Appleseed, in partnership with the High School Application Advisory Committee (HSAAC) convened by Fordham Law School’s Feerick Center for Social Justice, finalized a comprehensive brief outlining needed recommendations for middle and high school admissions, which was sent to
Announcement of Appleseed’s Yellow Bus Service Research Briefing in Spring Newsletter
New York Appleseed’s Spring Newsletter announces the release of our Yellow Bus Service Research Briefing, which provides the legal history of yellow-bus service, an analysis of the most recent available data on the usage of yellow-bus service for NYC, and
Appleseed’s Statement on G&T Changes
Appleseed released a statement in response to the announcement of changes to Gifted and Talented programs. In addition to being a tragic reversal of the steps made by the previous administration towards providing enrichment and accelerated learning opportunities to all
History and Resource Guide on the Movement for Integration in New York City
New York Appleseed, along with members of the Integration Coalition, compiled a resource guide to provide background on the Movement for Integration that describes the work of students, families, educators and advocates to dismantle school segregation and lay the groundwork
Fall 2021 Newsletter
Read here about what New York Appleseed has been up to this fall – with our coalition building and leadership in various spaces, our presence in the media and on different panels as well as some upcoming events that we