Friday marks 70 years since the 1954 landmark Supreme Court case, which outlawed racial segregation in American public schools.
President Joe Biden commemorated the ruling by meeting with family members of the plaintiffs at the White House Thursday. But decades after the ruling, the fight for racial equity in public schools persists now, especially in New York City.
A new report, which comes out Friday, will examine the city’s efforts to increase diversity in public schools by comparing student outcomes in the most and least diverse schools in the five boroughs.
Among the numerous findings, the report said that students attending the most diverse high schools were slightly more likely to graduate on time than their peers at the least diverse schools.
Nyah Berg; the executive director of New York Appleseed, a nonprofit organization advocating for integrated schools around the city and state; and Matt Gonzales; the director of the Education Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative at the NYU Metro Center, joined NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” to discuss the report.