Rochelle Du

This past weekend, NY Appleseed co-hosted a youth gathering with @aejc_ny and @thecirclekeepers to educate and uplift youth voices on school segregation and school integration. We started off with some grounding singing to affirm community power and collective care, and then students crafted freedom dreaming collages in response to the question, “How would you envision your school as a safe space that you are excited to learn in?” At the end, they merged their collages together to create a...

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Last week, Mayor Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels visited Arts & Letters 305 United, a merged school that equitably brought two different school communities together. NY Appleseed, in collaboration with the NYC Comptroller’s Office, published a report in 2024 highlighting this school as a powerful model for what REAL school integration can look like. The recommendations outlined in the report are perhaps more relevant now than they were in 2024, and we hope they can be a...