How Segregation Is Returning To NYC And Why The Mayor Doesn’t Want Anyone To Fix It
New York City is running a segregated school system. That is the charge the National Jewish Advocacy Center, which I lead, has asked the Justice Department to investigate: antisemitic hostility is driving Jewish children out of the public schools, officials are failing to protect their right to remain, and Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has a name for a system that sorts children that way. It defines desegregation as “the assignment of students to public schools and within such schools without regard to their race, color, religion, sex or national origin.”
Consider Deborah Uri, who told the New York Post that she withdrew her son from Townsend Harris High School after his friends “would no longer touch or talk to Jews.” Her description of the school’s response: “Administration just kind of went silent.”...
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