Integrate New York City Schools!

For Free, Equal, Quality Secular Public Education for All!

Class Struggle Education Workers has repeatedly emphasized that “The public schools are where race and class intersect in the U.S., a country built on a bedrock of capitalist slavery. That is why the fight for free quality education for all has been a fundamental issue since the fight for abolition.” And ever since the 2014 study by the UCLA Civil Rights Project, issued on the 60th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education court decision ordering school integration, it has been notorious, as we headlined in the CSEW Newsletter (No. 4, Fall 2014), that “New York Schools Have Worst Segregation in the U.S.”

In recent weeks this vital issue has flared up again as figures were released in March showing that the numbers of African American and Hispanic students in these elite schools is tiny – less than 10%, even though they make up nearly 70% of public school students. At Stuyvesant High School, less than 1% of students are black (compared to 10% in 1971). And despite Mayor Bill de Blasio’s vow to diversify the specialized high schools, the numbers are falling. At Stuyvesant, out of 895 slots in the incoming freshman class, only 7 were offered to black students, down from 10 last year and 13 the year before. This is nothing less than institutionalized racism.

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Submitted April 19, 2019 at 04:51PM by a_indabronx http://bit.ly/2UMLaSC