Students filled the New York City council chambers on December 7th to share their experiences in segregated schools and offer solutions. But they faced a mostly empty dais: Only two members of the council’s education committee stayed to hear the students’ testimony.

As far as I can tell, the difference between whites in the South and whites in the North is that the northerners have been far more successful at maintaining segregation. The biggest crime is that 60 years later, we teach students about what happened in Little Rock, but we don’t teach them what happened in New York City or Chicago.

New York City schools are among the most segregated in the country, and students are playing a growing role in the budding movement to do something about that. After much prodding from integration advocates, the de Blasio administration released a plan this summer to spur more diversity in city schools.

Read the source article on segregation by Christina Veiga at Chalkbeat