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I think that school choice can certainly help but there are limits. District 1 in NYC has a form of school choice but segregation persists and is even driven by
by harryh 6y ago
I think that school choice can certainly help but there are limits. District 1 in NYC has a form of school choice but segregation persists and is even driven by minorities in some ways. This article is really interesting:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/nyregion/a-manhattan-district-where-school-choice-amounts-to-segregation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/nyregion/a-manhattan-dist...
It touches on two NYC schools that share a building (The Earth School & PS64) but have remarkably different racial and socioeconomic makeups. I found it fascinating after touring Earth School earlier this year.