Century Foundation Fellow Gives NYC Schools B-Minus in Efforts to Increase Diversity

Century Foundation Fellow Gives NYC Schools B-Minus in Efforts to Increase Diversity

New York City’s schools are among the most segregated in the country — an issue that has attracted growing attention and advocacy.

On the same day the diversity report was released, Public Advocate Letitia James called for the city Department of Education to appoint a chief diversity officer to “implement and oversee efforts to reduce segregation in New York City’s public schools.”

While the new initiatives represent improvement, they are still relatively modest, said Richard Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, a think tank focused on inequity...