Source: New York Post
Poorer black and Hispanic students in New York City and across the state are being prevented from attending the best public elementary schools thanks to “racist’’ zoning, a new study has found. New York’s current public-school zones are nearly identical to the infamous government “redlining” used a century ago to discriminate against minority neighborhoods when it came to housing — a system that was eventually deemed unconstitutional, according to the report by the nonpartisan watchdog Available to All. “These attendance zone lines are official policy, and they separate the haves from the have-nots,” group founder and President Tim DeRoche said of New York’s student-placement system.
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