Reports, News & Updates

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.

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 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.

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.

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.