From our Why the New York Times Is a Great (Local) Newspaper desk:
Monumental takeout on New York’s public-school system in Sunday’s New York Times.
Nut graf:
In the broad resegregation of the nation’s schools that has transpired over recent decades, New York’s public-school system looms as one of the most segregated. While the city’s public-school population looks diverse — 40.3 percent Hispanic, 32 percent black, 14.9 percent white and 13.7 percent Asian — many of its schools are nothing of the sort.
About 650 of the nearly 1,700 schools in the system have populations that are 70 percent a single race, a New York Times analysis of schools data for the 2009-10 school year found; more than half the city’s schools are at least 90 percent black and Hispanic.
Helpful chart:
Notice anything?
Boston schools are nowhere in sight!
Then again there’s this.
So let’s not do any victory dancing just yet.
These are BIG districts. Boston, by national standards, is not. Jacksonville (Duval County) has more than twice Boston’s enrollment.