NY: As NYC kindergarten applications open, more schools try to bolster diversity
Chalkbeat New York – December 08, 2021
As kindergarten applications opened Wednesday, a group of Brooklyn, Staten Island and Manhattan neighborhood schools – some of which are among the city’s most coveted – are trying to increase diversity when it comes to the race and class of their student bodies. The education department’s “diversity in admissions” program gives priority to such groups as low-income students, English language learners, those living in temporary housing or in the child welfare system. The program launched in 2015 with seven elementary schools, and will total 31 elementary schools across the city as well as all of those in Manhattan’s Lower East Side/East Village District 1 for the coming school year.
Also: The Benefits of Socioeconomically and Racially Integrated Schools and Classrooms: https://production-tcf.imgix.net/app/uploads/2016/02/26171529/Factsheet_Benefits_FinalPDF.pdf
https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/12/8/22825046/kindergarten-admissions-nyc-schools-diversity