Friday, January 30, 2015
New Data Illuminates Long Island's Education Inequities
Two new studies provide a remarkable look at education inequities on Long Island. They offer a view that is both distressing and instructive. Given that New York has the most segregated schools in America, according to the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, these studies should be the basis for a regional commitment to addressing these inequities.
The studies were released by two Long Island institutions - ERASE Racism and the Long Island Index - at an education forum convened by ERASE Racism last week in Melville. The forum brought together school administrators and education advocates and was the first step in drawing these studies and their implications to the attention of a wider audience....