Teens launch strike for school integration outside lower Manhattan high schools – By Michael Elsen-Rooney (New York Daily News) / Nov 18 2019
Dozens of students at two Manhattan highs schools separated by a staircase — and a glaring racial and economic gap ― walked out Monday in the first of a weekly protest of the inequity.
The demonstrators who attend NYC iSchool and Chelsea Career and Technical Education High School, which share a SoHo building, say they want a fix for the segregation that’s become endemic in city high schools.
“It is clear to see the inequities between our schools that are separated by a staircase,” said Carla Gaveglia, a senior at NYC iSchool, an academically selective program with a 41% black and Hispanic racial mix.
At in-house neighbor Chelsea CTE, 81% of the students are black and Hispanic — and it has more than double the proportion of kids who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
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Students gather outside their school in lower Manhattan on Monday to protest high school admissions policies they say lead to racial and economic segregation. (Michael Elsen-Rooney/for New York Daily News)
