Dear Friends, Like many, I have been anxiously anticipating and bracing myself for the decision made by the Supreme Court today to gut Affirmative Action since the oral arguments in October. The Court’s majority added to a shameful list of
New York Appleseed Welcomes Rochelle Du as the New Integrated Schools Project Coordinator
Rochelle Du joins New York Appleseed as the Integrated Schools Project Coordinator after working as an English teacher in Taiwan for 2 years. As a second-generation immigrant who grew up in a predominantly white suburb, she witnessed firsthand the lack
We’re Hiring!
New York Appleseed has an open position that we’re hiring for this spring. Please find the description for the position below.
Press Release: New York Appleseed Announces its Acquisition of the PTAlink Platform
New York Appleseed alongside the co-founder and director of PTAlink is thrilled to announce that the PTAlink namesake and platform is now a project led and operated by New York Appleseed. For well over a decade, PTAlink and its website
We’re Hiring!
New York Appleseed is looking to expand our team. Find out more about two job opportunities below:
Appleseed testifies at City Council’s Education Committee Hearing on New Admissions Processes
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