Newsflash: School Integration Requires Regulation

“The analysts’ maps provide stark evidence of something many New Yorkers know intuitively: Middle-class families, often white, are happy to live in areas where their neighbors are less well-off and are a different color; this is the very tide of gentrification. But they are less willing to send their children to schools where most of their classmates are likely to be poor and either black or Hispanic.”

–“Segregation Persists in Gentrifying Neighborhoods” in the NY Times