“Edwin Pacheco, whose organization Red Hook Redemption provides volunteers who work in P.S. 676, said he signed the letter because the rezoning’s focus has felt like it is about filling the newly built seats at P.S. 32. He wishes the
Another way of stating the findings of this study is that low-income households are facing intense displacement pressures in gentrifying neighborhoods – and in all other NYC neighborhoods. Seven years is not enough to understand the effects of gentrification on
In response to the Urban Institute study (posted yesterday), Richard Buery, Jr. of KIPP writes in EdWeek that “it is just wrong to criticize charters for … problems are as old as the republic itself.” This is essentially a straw
Much as it pains those of us who might wish for integration by mayoral fiat, the reality is that building long-term political will at the community-school-district level is critical to the durability of our integration policies – political will that
One of the reasons we can make substantial headway in addressing school segregation in New York City is that our city has far more racial and economic diversity (because it comprises a larger portion of the overall metro area, including
Facilitating Relationships across people of different backgrounds is one of the Five Rs of Real Integration developed by Integrate NYC. But what does this mean in our neighborhoods? A report from the National Initiative for Mixed Income Communities reviews some
The evidence is overwhelming that integrating our schools and communities is likely to be the most effective way to reduce inequality and inter-generational poverty in American society. This piece does a decent job of explaining why we put so little
“A major contributor to school crowding is the current zoning of elementary schools.” Although zoning is often idealized as the efficient or “natural” way to assign children to elementary schools, this report reminds us that NYC’s system of zoning is
Or perhaps not so sweeping… We are concerned about setting a precedent of approaching integration via the “sub-districts” used by the School Construction Authority for capital planning. No school-integration advocate in NYC to our knowledge has ever recommended planning for
A few takeaways from this important piece: 1) the paradox that large-scale sweeping changes affecting similarly situated people more or less equally are actually EASIER to implement than timid tweaking that is perceived to burden a subset of people while
