New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's task force on school desegregation aims to solve a problem that doesn't exist by eliminating much of what does work in the city's troubled public-school system, while failing to address its many shortcomings.
The School Diversity Advisory Group, appointed by de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, has called for repopulating each of the city's 1,800 public schools to mirror the ethnic makeup of the city at large within 10 years.
The plan reflects the stated goal of both de Blasio and Carranza: a totally "Desegregated" school system.
True, many schools in the system-"Apartheid" schools, as some rhetorically irresponsible officials would have it-are 90 percent black or Latino.
The report lumps Asian students in with whites, to be sliced and diced as the department moves to homogenize the schools ethnically, paying scant attention to performance, culture, or community.
No reasonable person would argue that the city's schools should be exempt from change.
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his first schools chancellor, Joel Klein, triggered their share of earthquakes-largely to positive effect, it should be added.
https://www.city-journal.org/de-blasio-nyc-school-desegregation-task-force
The School Diversity Advisory Group, appointed by de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, has called for repopulating each of the city's 1,800 public schools to mirror the ethnic makeup of the city at large within 10 years.
The plan reflects the stated goal of both de Blasio and Carranza: a totally "Desegregated" school system.
True, many schools in the system-"Apartheid" schools, as some rhetorically irresponsible officials would have it-are 90 percent black or Latino.
The report lumps Asian students in with whites, to be sliced and diced as the department moves to homogenize the schools ethnically, paying scant attention to performance, culture, or community.
No reasonable person would argue that the city's schools should be exempt from change.
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his first schools chancellor, Joel Klein, triggered their share of earthquakes-largely to positive effect, it should be added.
https://www.city-journal.org/de-blasio-nyc-school-desegregation-task-force
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