New York Mayor Bill de Blasio visits the Amber Charter School in Manhattan The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights lists education as a right for all. New York City, a liberal stronghold, presents an outdated public schooling system whose institutionalized, racist factors permit racial and socio-economic separation within schools. Schools draw from areasContinue reading “School Segregation in Modern America: New York’s Separate and Unequal Schools”
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Educational Gerrymandering: A Look at Modern Segregation in American Schools
Gerrymandering, as explained by the Washington Post, refers to ‘the drawing of political boundaries in a way that gives your party a numeric advantage over an opposing party’. This long-sustained tactic employed by both the Democratic and Republican parties has transformed, moving beyond the legislative, beyond the confines of Partisan advantage. Gerrymandering has entered aContinue reading “Educational Gerrymandering: A Look at Modern Segregation in American Schools”