Manhattan Rezoning Fight Involves a School Called ‘Persistently Dangerous’
28th October 2015
It is as though the neighborhood were divided by an invisible wall.
On one side, children attend a public elementary school where test scores are high, the students are mostly white and well off, and the parent-teacher organization can raise $800,000 a year to pay for things like a resident chef.
On the other side, children attend a public elementary school where 87 percent of the students are black or Hispanic and 84 percent receive some form of public assistance. Just over a tenth pass the state reading and math tests. There is no library or art teacher.
Guess what the fight is over. Just guess.
Guess who these people voted for in the last two Presidential elections. Just guess.