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Program Aims to Keep Schools Diverse as New York Neighborhoods Gentrify

Program Aims to Keep Schools Diverse as New York Neighborhoods Gentrify

February 16, 2016

Via: NY Times

How white is too white? At the Academy of Arts and Letters, a small K-8 school in Brooklyn founded in 2006 to educate a community of “diverse individuals,” that question is being put to the test.

The school — along with six others in New York City — is part of a new Education Department initiative aimed at maintaining a racial and socio-economic balance at schools in fast-gentrifying neighborhoods.

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