New York’s schools are highly segregated — by race, class, and academic achievement. This year, city officials began to heed the call from parents and advocates to make changes, but their efforts were rocky and far from comprehensive.

From successful strides toward integration to thwarted efforts to inequities that are only just starting to get attention, here’s where New York stands in the struggle to integrate schools.

City’s latest plan to rezone Upper West Side schools takes aim at segregation, but some say it’s not enough

“The latest plan, which would redistribute the students who live in a public-housing development among three schools, provides a clear sign that the city is paying new attention to the extensive race and class segregation among its schools.”

“The latest plan, which would redistribute the students who live in a public-housing development among three schools, provides a clear sign that the city is paying new attention to the extensive race and class segregation among its schools.” Great divide: How extreme academic segregation isolates students in New York City’s high schools

“A Chalkbeat analysis found that over half the students who took and passed the eighth-grade state math exam in 2015 wound up clustered in less than 8 percent of city high schools. The same was true for those who passed the English exam.”

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