Access does not equal equity

“With 1.1 million students in 1,800 schools, New York City’s school system is the largest in the country. By the city’s own count, roughly 70 percent of its schools are segregated by race and income. The result is essentially a two-tiered system of public education — academically thriving schools for students from white and affluent families, and underperforming schools that almost exclusively serve black and Latino students from low-income families.”