NYC bar association wants school desegregation fix (New York Daily News)
New York Daily News, May 2, 2019
NYC bar association wants school desegregation fix
“A group representing more than 24,000 New York lawyers wants to desegregate city schools by removing all admissions screening for kids from kindergarten through the eighth grade. In a letter sent to Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza and members of the city’s School Diversity Advisory Group on Wednesday, the New York City Bar Association called for the end of competitive admissions for elementary- and middle-school programs and schools….The City Bar’s Civil Rights Committee Chair Philip Desgranges said the practice denies city kids’ equal access to educational opportunity in the public school system, which is one of the most racially segregated in the country. ‘No one should accept an unquestionably flawed system that year after year closes the doors of many of our schools to the majority of young children from historically disadvantaged racial groups and economic backgrounds,’ Desgranges said.”
