Reports, News & Updates

New recommendations from the High School Application Advisory Committee offer a clear, equity-driven roadmap to improve NYC’s middle and high school admissions processes.

Decades of research confirm that diversity in schools improves outcomes for all students. This fact sheet highlights how integration boosts academic achievement, critical thinking, graduation rates, and readiness for a diverse society.

Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education, where does New York City stand on school integration? NYU Metro Center and New York Appleseed take stock of policy shifts, community action, and the road ahead. Download the full report for insights and recommendations.

As New York City enacts a new law capping class sizes, this report highlights a practical, equity-driven solution: intentional school mergers. Drawing on a successful case in District 13, the report shows how thoughtful consolidation can reduce class sizes, promote integration, and strengthen under-resourced schools.

New York City’s middle and high school admissions processes reinforce inequity and create barriers for under-resourced students. This brief outlines actionable steps the NYCDOE can take to build a fairer system, starting with the 2022–2023 school year.

As New York Appleseed’s advocacy for school integration increasingly grows to encompass integration planning for entire community school districts in New York City, the issue of transportation has become increasingly salient

This new resource challenges the myth that gifted programs must be separate and competitive. Instead, it presents a vision for inclusive enrichment in integrated classrooms that benefits all students.

This resource brings together key history, laws, policies, and campaigns that shape the movement for Real Integration in NYC. A must-read for advocates and leaders alike.

The Integration Coalition outlines urgent priorities to desegregate NYC schools and build a system rooted in equity and inclusion. Grounded in the student-led 5Rs framework, the briefing calls for bold action across admissions, curriculum, and school climate.

NY Appleseed and the Fordham Law Feerick Center’s Advisory Council call for bold reforms to NYC’s high school admissions system. Their report, The Next Step, outlines immediate and long-term actions to eliminate exclusionary screening, enhance family supports, and build a more equitable, integrated school system.

As New York City continues to debate the future of Gifted and Talented programs, New York Appleseed has released a new infographic showing how these programs segregate students from an early age. Only integrated, heterogeneous classrooms can deliver the inclusive education all children deserve.

New York Appleseed’s 2020 Within Our Reach briefing updates its groundbreaking work on segregation in NYC elementary schools, showing how policy, not geography, drives inequity and what can still be done to change it.

New York Appleseed’s Within Our Reach series explores how racial and economic segregation persists in NYC schools—and what can be done to change it. These briefings, developed with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, demonstrate that meaningful integration is both possible and necessary.

Real Integration as defined by IntegrateNYC requires equitable distribution of resources across schools. Students and parents often hear that New York City’s system of “fair student funding” was designed to address resource equity, and yet most of us have a sense that a small number of schools are still receiving more than their fair share.

Based on scores of interviews, research, and successful advocacy, we set out to uncover and demystify those formal structures beyond housing patterns that perpetuated racial and economic segregation in schools

A new issue briefing from New York Appleseed breaks down how zoning and screening policies shape segregation in NYC middle schools, and what needs to change.

In this new film from New York Appleseed and Epic Theatre Ensemble, New York City high-school students star in the student-written and -performed play Laundry City. This is one of the most sophisticated treatments of the issue of school segregation you will ever see

Decades of research and on-the-ground experience show that resources alone are not enough—student well-being and belonging are essential to meaningful integration. This briefing explores what “Real Integration” looks like in practice, guided by the 5Rs framework created by NYC students and supported by school leaders across the city.

New report reveals stark disparities in teacher experience and qualifications between schools serving students of color and low-income communities and those serving predominantly White, affluent students.